Antebellum - Divisive Events_Unit 4

Name the senator from Massachusetts who was nearly beaten to death after giving a speech called the “Crime Against Kansas” that also personally attacked a South Carolina Senator.

• Roger B. Taney

• Charles Sumner

• Stephen Douglas

• Henry Clay

Choose the Senator from Kentucky who offered a series of proposals in order to reach the final Compromise of 1850.

• Roger B. Taney

• Charles Sumner

• Stephen A. Douglas

• Henry Clay

Who was elected the first Republican president of the United States?

• Stephen A. Douglas

• James Buchanan

• Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Jackson

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was proposed by this senator, who also ran for president in 1860.

• Henry Clay

• John Brown

• Stephen A Douglas

• Roger B. Taney

Identify the author of the novel that described the cruelties of slavery, and encouraged people to support the anti-slavery cause.

• Louisa May Alcott

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet B. Scott

What does the term secede mean?

• to achieve something after much effort

• to protest against the United States of America

• to formally withdraw a state from the United States of America

The Underground Railroad can best be described as ___.

• an 1850s railway system running along river banks in the Northern states, carrying plantation products

• an informal organized group of people who helped runaway slaves escape to freedom

• a collection of railway cars designed to carry slaves to be bought and sold

Name the group of people who were given money to move from the northeastern part of the United States to the Kansas Territory in hopes they could use popular sovereignty to ban slavery in the region

• Abolitionists

• Free Soilers

• Railroaders

Which is true about the Pottawatomie Massacre?

• incident in which 5 slaves and their families were hanged for attempting to escape from the Kansas Territory

• incident in which John Brown and others killed five pro-slave people in Kansas during 1856

• incident in which 50 Union soldiers were attacked and killed by Cherokee Warriors in the Oklahoma Indian Country

FACT or FICTION > Popular sovereignty is when it was determined that a state would become slave or free through the vote of the people who resided there.

• FACT

• FICTION