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Unit 9 Sectionalism GRA 12-3

Total questions: 7

Worksheet time: 2hrs 45mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

From the You Tube video "Sound Smart: The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854", the Kansas-Nebraska is noted the reason for the break up of the _____________party?

a)

Republican

b)

Democratic

c)

House

2.

From the You Tube video "Sound Smart: The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854", Stephen Douglas wanted new territories to vote on the slavery issue. This is called what principle? (a)  

Choose from the below words
Popular Sovereignty
Republicanism
Anarchy
3.

From the You Tube video "Sound Smart: The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854", many former northern anti-slavery democrats started the new (a)   party.

4.

Stephen Douglas suggested that Congress repeal the Missouri Compromise. Instead, settlers in those areas would vote on whether to allow slavery. Douglas called this “popular sovereignty" which means that-? (a)  

Choose from the below words
the people are allowed to decide.
the President decides.
the rich decide.
5.

(from your notes) - In Kansas, both antislavery and pro-slavery groups had weapons. Soon fighting broke out. Pro-slavery supporters attacked a town where many antislavery supporters lived. Then John Brown, an abolitionist, led an attack on a pro-slavery group. Brown’s group killed five slavery supporters.

Newspapers called the conflict __________ __________.

a)

Bleeding Kansas

b)

Kansas has fallen

c)

Kansas apocalypse.

6.

(from your notes) -Both antislavery and pro-slavery groups had weapons. Soon fighting broke out. Pro-slavery supporters attacked a town where many antislavery supporters lived. Then John Brown, an abolitionist, led an attack on a pro-slavery group. Brown’s group killed five slavery supporters. Newspapers called the conflict “Bleeding Kansas” and the “Civil War in Kansas.” A civil war is a war between people of the same country. Question: What is a war between people of the same country?

a)

Interstate wars

b)

Silver war

c)

civil war

7.

GRA-Both antislavery and pro-slavery groups had weapons. Soon fighting broke out. Pro-slavery supporters attacked a town where many antislavery supporters lived. Then John Brown, an abolitionist, led an attack on a pro-slavery group. Brown’s group killed five slavery supporters. Newspapers called the conflict “Bleeding Kansas” and the “Civil War in Kansas.” A civil war is a war between people of the same country. Question: What 2 groups fought against each? (a)  

Choose from the below words
antislavery and pro-slavery
antislavery and go-slavery
antislavery and no- slavery