Chapter 15: A Divided Nation

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a slave state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Ohio

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a free state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Alabama

Where was the Missouri Compromise line?

• 36-30 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase
• 46-40 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase
• 56-50 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase
• 66-60 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase

What did the Fugitive Slave Law do?

• The underground railroad was ended
• Slaves that ran-away would be jailed
• Made it illegal for slaveholders to recapture their slaves
• Made it easier for slaveholders to find and reclaim runaway slaves

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Beacher Stow

• Robert E Lee

• Fredrick Douglas

An abolitionist is 

• a person who put the welfare of the country above their region
• a person in favor of slavery
• a person who wanted to end slavery
  
• a person who wanted to end the spread of slavery

What caused a violent struggle over slavery in Kansas?

• The Fugitive Slave Act

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Kansas Nebraska Act

• The Declaration of Independence

What Supreme Court decision decided that African Americans did not have the right to sue in Federal Court?

• The Fredrick Douglass Case

• The Dread Scott Case

• Nat Turner vs Alabama

• Cherokee vs Georgia

What war occurred as a result of disputes between the northern and southern United States?

• Revolutionary War

• Civil War

• World War I

• World War II

How did the idea of popular sovereignty affect slavery in the U.S.?

• slavery would not be permitted in unofficial states

• states/territories would decide to permit slavery

• slavery would not be permitted anywhere

• federal government would have final say on slavery