Unit 10: A Nation Divided

True/False: California entered the union as a free state.

• True

• False

This law made it a crime to help runaway slaves.

• Runaway Slave Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Slave Act of 1853

• Free-Soil Act

This act divided the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories where people would vote on the issue of slavery.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Iowa-Nebraska Act

• The Pierce Act

• The Anti-slavery Act of 1853

A political party united against the spread of slavery in the West.

• Republican

• Democratic

• Whig

• Know-Nothing

Who won the Presidential Election of 1860?

• Franklin Pierce

• Millard Fillmore

• Abraham Lincoln

• James Buchanan

The process of allowing people of each state or territory to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery was called...

• voter compromise.
• direct election.
• secession.
• popular sovereignty.

Which of the following was a point made in the Dred Scott decision?

• Congress could prohibit slavery in any territory.
• Slaves were property, even if they lived in a free territory.
• Slaves were citizens.
• All of the above.

The Dred Scott decision stated that the U.S. Constitution...

• protected the rights of slaveholders but not slaves.
• protected the rights of African Americans as citizens.
• allowed Congress to prohibit slavery in any state or territory.
• allowed any person living in the U.S. to sue in federal court.

What are some of the disadvantages of the Union? (Check all that apply)

• Unfamiliar land

• More food rations

• Long supply lines

• Better railroads

Southerners were upset when Lincoln was elected president because:

• they believed he might one day end slavery, which would threaten their way of life

• they wanted a president who would support the abolition of slavery

• he wanted northern states to secede from the Union

• he had a plan to raise taxes