4.1 - Division

This term means: A network of abolitionists who helped runaway slaves reach freedom

• Abolitionist

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Popular Sovereignty

• Underground Railroad

This term means: Someone who wanted to end slavery in the United States

• Abolitionist

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Popular Sovereignty

• Underground Railroad

This term means: Law requiring all citizens to help catch runaway slaves

• Abolitionist

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Popular Sovereignty

• Underground Railroad

This term means: To allow the people in each territory to vote on issues such as slavery

• Abolitionist

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Popular Sovereignty

• Underground Railroad

What made it possible for southern planters to boost their profits after 1793?

• Workers planted less cotton and more rice & sugar cane.

• Planters started raising livestock.

• Workers cleaned more cotton in the same amount of time with the cotton gin.

• Planters moved North to fertile new lands.

Which abolitionist leader was a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad?

• John Brown

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet Tubman

Which event led directly to the secession of the Southern States from the Union in 1860 and 1861?

• election of Abraham Lincoln as president

• passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• adoption of the Fugitive Slave Act.

• decision of the Supreme Court in Dred Scott vs Sanford

An issue that divided the North and the South and led to the Civil War was the

• length of the term of the president

• use of judicial review by the Supreme Court

• balance of congressional power between the free states and the slave states

• application of the impeachment process

In the speech, what issue was President Lincoln addressing?

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Slavery

• Popular Sovereignty

In the speech, Lincoln uses the metaphor of a house. What does the "house" represent?

• The whole country

• The South only

• The North only

• The West only