Chapter 15: A Divided Nation Test

John Brown and his men kill 5 pro-slavery men in Kansas.

• Pottawatomie Massacre

• Battle at Black Jack

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Raid on Harper's Ferry

John Brown tries to get weapons to the slaves by stealing from a federal arsenal.

• Pottawatomie Massacre

• Harper's Ferry

• Battle at Black Jack

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

The man who beat a Senator unconscious with a cane

• Charles Sumner

• Preston Brooks

• John Brown

• Stephen Douglas

The Chief Justice of the United States, this man made the famous ruling in the Dred Scott Case.

• John G. Roberts

• Roger B. Taney

• Scott Sanford

• Abraham Lincoln

True or False: Democratic candidate Stephen Douglas won the presidential election of 1852.

• True

• False

True or False: The Kansas-Nebraska Act divided part of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories--Kansas and Nebraska.

• True

• False

True or False: The Missouri Compromise removed the 36-30 line that prohibited slavery in the west.

• True

• False

Part of the Compromise of 1850, this law made it a crime to help runaway slaves.

• Commissioners report

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Kansas- Nebraska Act

• Popular sovereignty

This agreement added California as a free state, but disallowed slave trading in the nation's capital.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Congressional Division Act

He sued for his freedom and his case reached the United States Supreme Court.

• Roger B. Taney

• Franklin Pearce

• Dred Scott

• John Emerson