Chapter 21 - A Divided Nation

What reason did the Fugitive Slave law support?

• plantation owners did not want returned slaves

• many slaves moved to Canada

• Northerners refused to obey the law

• hounded slave catchers returned to the South

Which was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• it settled the slavery issue in Nebraska

• it calmed the country's dispute over slavery

• it required that the new territories would be free states

• it led to a violent struggle over slavery in Kansas

What was the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case?

• that slavery diminished the national character

• that African American rights were protected by the Constitution

• that African Americans did not have the right to sue in federal court

• that slavery should be abolished by executive order

What did John Brown hope to achieve by his raid at Harper's Ferry?

• to create a slave rebellion that would bring an end to slavery

• to ring attention to the conflict between the North and South

• to bring the two sides together to form a new compromise

• to create a revolution that would lead to a war between the states

Which event turned the secession crisis into a civil war?

• the election of Abraham Lincoln

• South Carolina's shelling of Fort Sumter

• John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry

• Preston Brook's attack on Charles Sumner

The main issue of the Lincoln-Douglas debates was

• John Brown's raid

• the future of slavery

• who would be the best senator from Illinois

• who would be the best president in the 1860 election

What is the main issue that divided the North and South before the Civil War began?

• Manifest Destiny

• Immigration

• slavery

• Republicans and Democrats

The states that supported slavery were those in teh

• north

• south

• east

• west

Anti-slavery activists formed a new political party. What was it?

• Democrats

• Republicans

• Whigs

• Democratic-Republicans

The agreement that Missouri could join the United States as a slave state and Maine as a free state to maintain balance between free and slave states called the...

• Anaconda Plan

• Missouri Compromise

• Tallmadge Amendment

• Wilmot Proviso