Chapter 16 Slavery Divides the Nation

What political party along with Abraham Lincoln moved to the forefront of the debate over slavery?

• Northern Democrats

• Republican Party

• Free-Soil Party

In 1856, violence broke out between pro and anti-slavery groups while _____________ was voting on the slavery issue.

• Congress

• Abraham Lincoln

• Henry Clay

The Missouri Compromise stated that __________ would join the United States as a slave state and _________ would join as a free state.

• California as slave state, Texas as free state

• Utah as a slave state, Kansas as a free state

• Missouri as a slave state, Main as a free state

The Republican party chose ____________ for the presidential election of 1860, and he won the election.

• Abraham Lincoln

• James Buchanan

• Stephen Douglas

In 1819, there were eleven _________ and eleven _________.

• compromises, and battles

• free states, slave states

• abolitionist, raids

In 1848, a new political party called the ___________________ formed to fight against the spread of slavery.

• Democratic Party

• Republican Party

• Free- Soil Party

On December 20, 1860 _____________ became the first state to secede and was the second to leave the Union (United States).

• South Carolina

• Missouri

• Florida

A group of ________, northern Democrats , and _____________ gathered in Michigan in 1854 and formed the Republican Party.

• Abolitionist and Republicans

• Free - Soilers and anti-slavery Whigs

• Know Nothing Party and Abilitionist

Groups known as _____________ would ride across the border and battle anti-slavery forces in Kansas.

• Border Ruffins

• Abolitionists

• Southern Democrats

Southerners feared they would be outnumbered in Congress and talked of ____________ from the Union.

• voting

• running

• seceding