A Dividing Nation

What was an effect of the Missouri Compromise?

• It temporarily ended the slavery debate.

• It required Southern states to pay higher taxes.

• It led to the South seceding from the Union.

• It upset the balance of slave and free states in the Union.

Which was a fear of Southern senators if there were more free states than slave states?

• losing respect

• losing tax revenue

• losing voting power

• losing future elections

Which was true of the Compromise of 1850?

• It included a harsh law requiring the return of escaped slaves.

• It admitted CA as a free state.

• New Mexico and Utah Territory would be open to slavery by popular sovereighty

• All of these are parts of the Compromise of 1850

What was the impact of the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

• It created a slave revolt in Kentucky.

• Congress agreed that slavery should be abolished.

• It caused the South to secede from the Union.

• It turned many more people against slavery.

How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act nullify the Missouri Compromise?

• It changed the borders of Missouri.

• It required all Kansas to be free.

• It established new interstate trade rules.

• It allowed slavery in territory that was supposed to be free.

Which of these was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• It led to a violent struggle over slavery in Kansas.

• It calmed the country's dispute over slavery.

• It led to a violent struggle over slavery in Nebraska.

• It required that the new territories would be free states.

Which was part of the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dred Scott case?

• that African American rights were protected by the Constitution

• that slavery should be abolished

• that slaves were property and couldn't sue in a court

• that Dred Scott should get his freedom

What was apparent following the presidential election of 1860?

• Lincoln was popular throughout the nation.

• The issue of slavery completed divided the nation.

• There was little support for abolitionists in the North.

• Southern states were eager to abolish slavery.

Which event led to the secession of southern states?

• Election of 1860

• John Bron's Raid

• Kansas- Nebraska Act

• Dred Scott Decision

The title of the novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed slavery as a cruel and brutal system was...

• The Dred Scott Story

• Crime and Punishment

• The Slave Codes

• Uncle Tom's Cabin