U.S. History: The Nation Divides

Which term refers to a special set of laws intended to restrict the rights of enslaved people?

• ruling

• code

• tarriff

• convention

Which of these was more important to the economy in the North than the South in the early 1800s?

• cotton farming

• plantations

• factories

• enslaved people

Which of the following terms describes the practice of working for goals that are best for a certain region?

• nationalism

• abolition

• compromise

• sectionalism

Who benefitted most from the tarriffs of 1828 and 1832?

• Southern plantations

• members of Congress

• Northern industries

• Europeans

What reduced conflicts over slavery between the North and the South?

• the Lincoln-Douglas debates

• the Dred Scott decision

• the Missouri Compromise

• the Kansas-Nebraska Act

What event led Southern states to secede from the Union?

• the election of Lincoln as President

• the election of Douglas to the Senate

• John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

• the formation of the Confederacy

What was Lincoln saying in this quotation:

"My (main) object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy slavery." -Abraham Lincoln

• that he would not end slavery

• that he was opposed to slavery

• that he did not have the power to end slavery

• that preserving the nation (keeping it together) was more important than ending slavery

What event ended any hope of avoiding a civil war?

• the attack on Fort Sumter

• the election of Lincoln as President

• the Dred Scott decision

• the formation of the Confederacy

Which event took place last?

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Civil War began.

• Lincoln was elected president.

This person led enslaved people to freedom as a conductor on the Underground Railroad.

• Roger B. Taney

• Harriet Tubman

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Sojourner Truth