A Nation Dividing

What impact did Uncle Tom's Cabin have upon the slavery debate?

• it led to violence between antislavery and proslavery settlers
• it convinced Northerners to help capture runaway slaves
• it persuaded Southerners to free their slaves
• it turned millions of Northerners against slavery

What required Northerners to assist slave-catchers in capturing runaway slaves?

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Decision

What did the bloodshed in Kansas show about the nation?

• willing to use violence to settle slavery issue
• no more states should be added
• Southerners were ready to give up on slavery
• compromise was still possible

What did the Supreme Court declare in the Dred Scott Decision?

• Slavery should be illegal 
• Dred Scott was property and cannot sue
• The people in each new territory should get to vote on whether they want slavery
• That the Fugitive Slave Act was unconstitutional

Who seized the federal weapons arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia in hopes of start a rebellion to bring about the end of slavery?

• Dred Scott
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• John Brown
• Henry Clay

Many in the North viewed John Brown as a _______, Many in the South viewed John Brown as a _______.

• hero; terrorist
• criminal; saint
• victim; leader
• free person; slave

How many candidates were there in the 1860 Presidential Election?

• one
• two
• three
• four

Who won the 1860 Presidential Election?

• John Brown
• Abraham Lincoln
• Henry Clay
• Stephen Douglas

What does secession mean?

• to be successful
• to end slavery
• to leave the Union
• to fail

What Southern state became the first to leave the Union after Lincoln was elected president?

• South Carolina
• Virginia
• Alabama
• Texas