A Nation Divided

What was the Compromise of 1850?

• a Supreme Court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional

• 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.

• 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

• 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

What word means "to meet, especially in a challenge?"

• confront

• ensure

• faction

• fugitive

What was the Dred Scott Decision?

• a Supreme Court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional

• 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.

• 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

• 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

What word means "to make sure or certain?"

• confront

• ensure

• faction

• fugitive

What word means "a group of people within a larger group who have different ideas from the main group?"

• confront

• ensure

• faction

• fugitive

What word means "a person who flees or tries to escape (for example, from slavery)?"

• confront

• ensure

• faction

• fugitive

What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• a Supreme Court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional

• 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.

• 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

• 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

What was the main issue during the Lincoln-Douglass debates where both men were running for the Illinois Senator seat?

(a)  

This word came to have two different meanings once the Civil War started: (1) the United States as one nation united under a single government AND (2) the government and armies of the North.

(a)  

The Wilmot Proviso was a proposal made in 1846 to prohibit (a)   in the territory added to the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War.