5th Grade Studies Weekly-Week 27

__________ said, “Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!”

• Henry Clay

• John C. Calhoun

• Daniel Webster

• John Brown

Compromises in Congress kept __________.

• the country from going to war

• the country from legalizing slavery

• the country from expanding

• the country from big taxes

What crop was grown only in the southern region?

• corn

• orchards

• wheat

• cotton

What was the line called that separated the North from the South?

• Mason-Jar Line

• Jason-Dickens Line

• Mason-Dixon Line

• Jason-Dixon Line

Why was the “gag rule” put in Congress about abolition?

• The topic made people sick.

• The northern states refused to listen to abolitionist views.

• The southern states refused to listen to abolitionist views.

• The western states refused to listen to abolitionist views.

Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which allowed __________.

• slavery in new territories

• no slavery in new territories

• the people to vote for or against legalized slavery

• Congress to decide about legalized slavery

“Bleeding Kansas” showed that the country was ____________.

• united about slavery

• divided about slavery

• ready to vote for slavery

• ready for war

The Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court stated that ____________.

• enslaved people were property, not citizens

• enslaved people were citizens

• enslaved people had rights and liberty

• enslaved people shouldn’t be in court

The conflict in the Capitol Building between Charles Sumner and Preston Brooks showed __________.

• how everyone gets along in Congress

• the strong emotions about abolition and slavery

• the best way to solve a difference of opinion

• how everyone felt the same about slavery

John C. Calhoun introduced nullification, meaning the states could make __________.

• a federal law illegal

• their own laws

• a federal judge resign

• their own taxes