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Chapter 15: A Divided Nation

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a slave state?
a)
Missouri
b)
Maine
c)
Kentucky
d)
Ohio
2.
In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a free state?
a)
Missouri
b)
Maine
c)
Kentucky
d)
Alabama
3.
Where was the Missouri Compromise line?
a)
36-30 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase
b)
46-40 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase
c)
56-50 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase
d)
66-60 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase
4.
What did the Fugitive Slave Law do?
a)
The underground railroad was ended
b)
Slaves that ran-away would be jailed
c)
Made it illegal for slaveholders to recapture their slaves
d)
Made it easier for slaveholders to find and reclaim runaway slaves
5.

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Harriet Beacher Stow

c)

Robert E Lee

d)

Fredrick Douglas

6.
An abolitionist is 
a)
a person who put the welfare of the country above their region
b)
a person in favor of slavery
c)
a person who wanted to end slavery
d)
a person who wanted to end the spread of slavery
7.

What caused a violent struggle over slavery in Kansas?

a)

The Fugitive Slave Act

b)

The Missouri Compromise

c)

The Kansas Nebraska Act

d)

The Declaration of Independence

8.

What Supreme Court decision decided that African Americans did not have the right to sue in Federal Court?

a)

The Fredrick Douglass Case

b)

The Dread Scott Case

c)

Nat Turner vs Alabama

d)

Cherokee vs Georgia

9.

What war occurred as a result of disputes between the northern and southern United States?

a)

Revolutionary War

b)

Civil War

c)

World War I

d)

World War II

10.

How did the idea of popular sovereignty affect slavery in the U.S.?

a)

slavery would not be permitted in unofficial states

b)

states/territories would decide to permit slavery

c)

slavery would not be permitted anywhere

d)

federal government would have final say on slavery

11.

Which is true about the Fugitive Slave Act?

a)

law permitted fugitives to testify on their behalf

b)

people helping runaway slaves often served as witnesses

c)

commissioners benefited from returning slaves to slaveholders

d)

enforcement of law began 10 years after it was passed

12.

What did Southerners fear after John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry?

a)

safety of South was in jeopardy & another attack may come from the North

b)

raid would increase southern support for antislavery movement

c)

slaves in South would try to stage their own raid

d)

federal government would soon declare slavery illegal in the South

13.

Senator from Kentucky who created Compromise of 1850

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

Roger Taney

c)

Henry Clay

d)

Jefferson Davis

14.

Illinois congressman who introduced the Kansas-Nebraska Act

a)

Stephen Douglas

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

John Brown

d)

Dred Scott

15.

Slave who sued for his freedom

a)

John Brown

b)

Jefferson Davis

c)

Stephen Douglas

d)

Dred Scott

16.

Republican who won Election of 1860

a)

Jefferson Davis

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Roger Taney

d)

Henry Clay