Chapter 15 - Section 2 A Nation Dividing

Who wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• Lucretia Mott

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Mary Cady Stanton

• Harriet Tubman

The ________ Slave Act of 1850 required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves.

• Proviso

• Martyr

• Border

• Fugitive

The _________ -Nebraska Act would allow the people in each territory to vote on whether to allow slavery.

• Missouri

• Kansas

• Lincoln

• Sovereignty

Who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Stephen Douglas

• Henry Clay

• John C. Calhoun

• Zachary Taylor

Popular sovereignty means

• a person who dies for a cause

• to let the people decide

• fugitive slaves must be returned

• not voting

a conflict between citizens of the same country

• civil war

• border ruffians

• martyr conflict

• popular sovereignty

Who felt called by God to end slavery and led an attack against pro-slavery supporters in Kansas?

• Zachary Taylor

• David Wilmot

• Stephen Douglas

• John Brown

Armed Missourians that traveled to Kansas to vote in the elections of 1855 are often referred to as _____.

• border ruffians

• abstaining patrol

• fugitives

• sovereign party

What did free African Americans and whites who opposed slavery set up to help runaway slaves?

• popular sovereignty

• the underground railroad

• the Fugitive Slave Law

• the Missouri Compromise

Why did Stephen Douglas propose organizing the region west of Missouri and Iowa as the territories of Kansas and Nebraska?

• he wanted to even out the number of free and slave states

• he wanted to pave the way for the transcontinental railroad