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WorksheetsA Divided Nation
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name the book that changed peoples views of slavery
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Slaves
Slaves In Action
Uncle Remus's Nation
He is known as Mr. Compromise
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
Henry Clay
Harry Beecher Stowe
Brought to complete the Transcontinental Railroad
Mexican Cession
Gadsden Purchase
Louisiana Purchase
Mexican War
Said that all salves would be returned to their rightful owners
Fugitive Slave Act
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise Line
Stephen Douglas proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act to please whom
The North
The South
Abolitionist
Congress
Fight between pro-slavery advocates and antislavery advocates over voting irregularities
The Missouri Compromise
The Compromise of 1850
The Gadsden Purchase
Bleeding Kansas
This political party came of the Southern Whigs
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Free Soil Party
Federalist Party
It means that the most votes wins
cession
whigs
republican
popular sovereignty
Which one of these is NOT a part of the Compromise of 1850
The Fugitive Slave Act
Solved the border disputes between Texas and New Mexico
Abolish the slave trade in D.C.
prohibit slavery in Missouri
What piece of the Fugitive Slave Act did most northerners disagree with
They wanted slave to be set free
The didn't want to have to be fined for helping escape slaves
They wanted Congress to abolish slavery in the south
They wanted Stephen Douglas to reissue the Missouri Compromise
How dd free Blacks respond to the Fugitive Slave Act
The went to Congress and complained
The just accepted the Act
The fled to Canada
They went back to Africa
What led to a split of the northern and southern Whigs
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Compromise of 1820
The Compromise of 1850
The Fugitive Slave Act
Northern Whigs ______ the Kansas Nebraska Act while Southerners ________ it
opposed, supported
supported, opposed
opposed, opposed
supported, supported
The Northern Whigs created what political party
Democrats
Republicans
Free Soil
Free Whigs
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed what to decide free or slave
Congress to decide
Senate to decide
House of Representatives to decide
popular sovereignty
What affect did the Kansas-Nebraska Act have on the law of the land
It overturned the Fugitive Slave Act
It overturned the Gadsden Purchase
It overturned the Compromise of 1850
It overturned the Missouri Compromise
