3.1

Which of the following was the platform for the Republican Party?

• Plantation Owners: made money off of slave labor

• Abolition: end the institution of Slavery altogether

• Free Soil: did not want slavery to expand

• Industrialist: owned factories with paid workers

What was the decision in the Dred Scott case?

• slavery is confined to the southern states

• slavery cannot exist in free states

• slaves are property not people and cannot be citizens

• slaves have the right to be if they are taken to a free state.

Which compromise included the 36' 30' degree Mason Dixion Line (no slave states above and no free states below)?

• 3/5 ths Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Great Compromise

• Missouri Compromise

Why did John Brown's actions cause a greater divided (sectionalism) between the North and South?

• The South was upset that John Brown was not successful

• southerners believe that all northerners agreed with his actions and wanted to end slavery

• The North knew about John Brown's Plan

• The North helped John Brown with his plan

Why were northerners upset about the Fugitive Slave Act?

• they were forced to go against their beliefs

• They would be punished if they did not turn in run away slaves

• They were forced to return slaves to the South

• All of the above

This is the headline for a story published in The New York Herald on November 7,1860. How did Southern States react to this news?

• Senators from southern states called for a recount and resigned when it was not granted

• Representatives from southern states met to discuss the formation of a new political party.

• South Carolina seceded from the Union, and several other southern states soon followed.

• Southern states immediately declared war, and they launched an attack on Washington, D.C.

This flyer was published in 1859. What viewpoint about the actions of John Brown is supported by this flyer?

• John Brown was fighting to end the morally wrong practice of slavery.

• John Brown was ordered to participate in the raid as part of his military service.

• John Brown was encouraged by prominent abolitionists to use violence to further the abolitionist cause.

• John Brown was not allowed a trial but was sentenced by a judge who refused to hear witnesses in the case.

This diagram showed a series of events that took place between 1854 and 1858. What event best completes this diagram?

• An outbreak of violence known as Bleeding Kansas occurred.

• Federal troops were brought in to prevent the spread of slavery.

• The Missouri Compromise granted Kansas statehood as a slave state.

• The territory of Kansas seceded from the Union.

Who benefited most directly from the Fugitive Slave Law included in the compromise of 1850?

• abolitionists

• fugitive slaves

• southern judges

• slave owners

After the adoption of the Missouri Compromise, in which area of the country was slavery prohibited as the territories became states?

• Texas

• the Northwest

• the Mexican Cession

• Kansas and Nebraska