Dividing a Nation: The Road to Civil War

What does Lincoln believe will happen if the U.S. does not solve the issue of slavery?

• The Nation will collapse

• The Nation will become all free

• The Nation will become all slave

• The National will be permanent

Who won the Election of 1860?

• Abraham Lincoln-Republican

• Stephen Douglas-Northern Democrat

• John Breckenridge-Southern Democrat

• John Bell-Constitutional Union

What was the immediate reaction to the Election of 1860?

• Several Southern Slave States Seceded from the Union

• The South rallied behind their new president, Lincoln

• Slavery was immediately abolished throughout the nation

• The South invaded the North and took over Washington, D.C.

What was the issue that lead to the Missouri Compromise?

• Missouri applied for statehood as a slave state and that would disrupt the current balance between slave and free states in the Senate.

• Missouri wanted to split the state in two to accommodate the two halves of the population that had differing views on slavery.

• Missouri was going to be forced to be a free state in order to balance the Senate.

• Missouri and Kansas had to pick which state was going to be a free state and a slave state.

What is one of the major events that created friction in the U.S.?

• The land acquired from the Mexican-American War.

• The Oregon Trail that encouraged the depopulation of buffalo.

• The passage of the Homestead Act

• The signing of the Emancipation Proclamation

What are some consequences of the Compromise of 1850?

• California was admitted to the Union as a free state.

• The Fugitive Slave Act was passed.

• The slave trade was prohibited in Washington D.C.

• The Missouri Compromise was repealed and had to be readdressed in Congress.

• No federal restrictions were placed on slavery in the western territories gained from Mexico (except for California).

Under the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the issue of slavery in the new territories was to be decided by what?

• A vote of Congress

• The Supreme Court

• Popular sovereignty

• A presidential decree

What happened in Kansas as a response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Kansas seceded from the Union and became their own country.

• Kansas declared war on Nebraska.

• Both sides of the slavery debate became violent.

• Kansas abolished slavery.

What did the Supreme Court say in the Dred Scott decision?

• It considered slaves to be property without rights.

• It outlawed slavery in all U.S. states

• It required that slavery not be allowed in all new states

• It gave slaves all the rights of U.S. citizens

What event helped the U.S. learn about the slavery system happening in the south?

• The publication of a former slave's autobiography that went viral.

• Northern universities took research trips to the south to study the agriculture system in the U.S.

• The election of Abraham Lincoln who lived on a plantation and campaigned for the ending of slavery.

• The publication of the novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin that highlighted the evils of the fugitive slave laws.