WorksheetsChapter 15: A Divided Nation
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 9mins
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Beacher Stow
Robert E Lee
Fredrick Douglas
What caused a violent struggle over slavery in Kansas?
The Fugitive Slave Act
The Missouri Compromise
The Kansas Nebraska Act
The Declaration of Independence
What Supreme Court decision decided that African Americans did not have the right to sue in Federal Court?
The Fredrick Douglass Case
The Dread Scott Case
Nat Turner vs Alabama
Cherokee vs Georgia
What war occurred as a result of disputes between the northern and southern United States?
Revolutionary War
Civil War
World War I
World War II
How did the idea of popular sovereignty affect slavery in the U.S.?
slavery would not be permitted in unofficial states
states/territories would decide to permit slavery
slavery would not be permitted anywhere
federal government would have final say on slavery
Which is true about the Fugitive Slave Act?
law permitted fugitives to testify on their behalf
people helping runaway slaves often served as witnesses
commissioners benefited from returning slaves to slaveholders
enforcement of law began 10 years after it was passed
What did Southerners fear after John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry?
safety of South was in jeopardy & another attack may come from the North
raid would increase southern support for antislavery movement
slaves in South would try to stage their own raid
federal government would soon declare slavery illegal in the South
Senator from Kentucky who created Compromise of 1850
Abraham Lincoln
Roger Taney
Henry Clay
Jefferson Davis
Illinois congressman who introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
John Brown
Dred Scott
Slave who sued for his freedom
John Brown
Jefferson Davis
Stephen Douglas
Dred Scott
Republican who won Election of 1860
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
Roger Taney
Henry Clay
