A Nation Divided Quiz

Congress would ban slavery in all territory gained as a result of the Mexican-American War was known as the --

• Fugitive Slave Act

• The Wilmot Proviso

• Compromise of 1850

• Free Soil Decision

What was the name of the new anti-slavery political party created during this time?

• Free Soil

• Dixiecrats

• Bull-Moose

• Democrats

This term is defined as "people in the territory or state would vote directly on issues, rather than having their elected officials decide"

• State Secession

• Fugitive

• Popular Sovereignty

• Propaganda

The term given to a runaway enslaved person was -

• Fugitive

• Republican

• Abolitionist

• Suffragist

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• Stephen Douglas

• Susan B. Anthony

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• John Brown

An abolitionist wanted to get rid of --

• slavery

• elections

• popular sovereignty

• raids

Who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act and debated Abe Lincoln?

• Stephen Douglas

• Roger Taney

• Dred Scott

• John Brown

Who was responsible for a raid at Harper's Ferry as well as being involved in Bleeding Kansas?

• Dred Scott

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• John Brown

Who wrote the book about the morality of slavery. This book became a bestseller and caused the South to get upset?

• Roger Taney

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet Tubman

• John Brown

Who sued the government for his freedom?

• John Brown

• Stephen Douglas

• Dred Scott

• Abe Lincoln