Module 17 Test: A Nation Divided

The request by __________________ to be admitted as a free state led to the Compromise of 1850

• California
• Canada
• Jonesboro
• South Carolina

The _______________ _______________ Act of 1850 made it a federal crime to help runaway slaves.

• Confederate States of America
• Fugitive Slave
• Little Giant
• Missouri Compromise

This law forced runaway slaves to flee to _______________ to be truly free.

• California
• Canada
• Jonesboro
• South Carolina

The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 contradicted the _______________ ________________, which had been agreed to by northerners and southerners in 1820.

• Charles Sumner
• Confederate States of America
• Fugitive Slave
• Missouri Compromise

The _________________ Party was created in 1854 in opposition to the spread of slavery into the western territories.

• citizen
• Congress
• Democrat
• Republican

_______________ _______________, abolitionist U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, was beaten with a cane by Representative Preston Brooks on the floor of the U.S. Senate in 1856.

• Charles Sumner

• Preston Brooks

• Stephan Douglass

• John C. Calhoun

Dred Scott was told he could not sue for his freedom because he was not a ___________________, but property.

• citizen
• Democrat
• Fugitive Slave
• Little Giant
• Republican

Roger Taney, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, also ruled that _______________ could not ban someone from taking property into federal territory, which meant the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

• California
• Canada
• Confederate States of America
• Congress
• treason

Stephen A. Douglas’ nickname was the “___________ ___________” because he was short in physical stature, but a powerful political figure in American government.

• citizen
• Fugitive Slave
• Jonesboro
• Little Giant
• Missouri Compromise

Lincoln and Douglas, challengers for the U.S. Senate seat in 1858, held _______(#) debates in the state of Illinois.

• California
• Canada
• citizen
• seven
• treason