Sectionalism: Rising Tensions over Slavery
Authored by Adam Kelley
Social Studies
8th - 10th Grade
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The Missouri Compromise, the compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were all efforts to
end fighting between midwestern farmers and native American Indians
encourage manufacturing in the west
increase the number of people who voted in presidential elections
settle disputes over the spread of slavery to the western territories
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
What is popular sovereignty?
Where sovereignty is left to the government to decide
Where sovereignty is left to the people to decide
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The WHAT was part of the Compromise of 1850 and made it a crime to help runaway slaves?
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which of the following describes "Bleeding Kansas"?
A violent slave uprising led by Joseph Cinque
Violence in Kansas between proslavery and antislavery settlers prior to the Civil War
The turning point of the Civil War, in which Robert E. Lee's army was routed from Kansas
The devastation caused by a tornado in Kansas in 1854, which killed 55 people
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The Missouri Compromise allowed what state to be a slave state and what state to be a free state?
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
An Illinois lawyer who became the 16th President of the United States
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Between 1850 and 1860, which of the following issues was a major area of conflict in U.S. politics?
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