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Lesson 21 A Dividing Nation

Authored by R Butler

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8th Grade

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Lesson 21 A Dividing Nation
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The United States as one nation united under a single government; during the Civil War, “the Union” came to mean the government and armies of the North

Confederacy

Union

Communism

Industrialist

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

An agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state

Great Compromise

3/5s Compromise

Compromise of 1850

Missouri Compromise

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A proposal made in 1846 to prohibit slavery in the territory added to the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War

Missouri Compromise

Constitution

Wilmot Proviso

Kansas-Nebraska Act

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A person who flees or tries to escape

Fugitive

Free

Track Star

Communist

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The agreements made in order to admit California into the Union as a free state. These agreements included allowing the New Mexico and Utah territories to decide whether to allow slavery, outlawing the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and creating a stronger fugitive slave law

Wilmot Proviso

Missouri Compromise

Great Compromise

Compromise of 1850

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

An act passed in 1854 that created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers to determine whether slavery would be allowed in the new territories

California-Nevada Act

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Missouri Compromise

3/5's Compromise

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

A Supreme Court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the U.S. and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional

Dred Scott decision

Supreme Court

Brown v Board of Education

Marbury v Madison

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