WorksheetsSlavery Divides The Nation
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
The loyalty to a part of a nation or region, but not the nation as a whole.
emancipation
sectionalism
conscription
secession
An idea that people living in a state or territory had the right to decide by voting if slavery would be allowed there. This idea was supported by southern states.
Democracy
Abolition
Popular Sovereignty
Slave Codes
This law said that escaped slaves must be returned to their owners and imposed penalties on anyone who helped a slave escape.
Harriet Tubman Law
Fugitive Slave Act
Bill of Rights
Conscription
The Missouri Compromise Line determined the status of slavery in future states. North of the line slavery was ___________ or banned, and South of the line slavery was _________.
permitted, prohibited
prohibited and permitted or allowed
sometimes prohibited, never allowed
cheap, expensive
___________ suggested the Compromise of 1850.
The Northern states
Abraham Lincoln
Henry Clay
The Southern states
Along with the compromise, Congress passed the ______________________, which stated all runaway slaves had to be returned to their owners.
Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Law
Missouri Compromise
Runaway Slave Bill
What is popular sovereignty?
Right to have slaves
Right to be free
Right to vote on an issue
Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by __________________ .
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Tubman
Frederick Douglas
William Lloyd Garrison
In the Compromise of 1850 which territory was admitted as a free state?
California
Texas
Missouri
Maine
What topic divided the United States like no other topic during the 1850's?
Slavery
Mexican American War
The border of the Oregon Territory.
Whether or not to annex Texas.
Dred Scott was famous for ___________.
being sued by someone else
suing for his freedom
being in the military
being a famous doctor
Dred Scott _____ his case in the Supreme Court
won
lost
tied
dropped
The Supreme Court decided that Scott was not a slave and that he had rights in the U.S.
True
False
_____ was a well-known abolitionist who was willing to use violence to end slavery and was hanged for leading a raid at Harpers Ferry.
David Rice Atchison
John Brown
Andrew Reeder
Charles Robinson
According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act,
all territories above the 36°30’ N line would be free, while those below it would allow slavery
the people in each territory would vote on whether they wanted to allow slavery or not
the territories of Kansas and Nebraska would enter the Union as slave states
the territories of Kansas and Nebraska would enter the Union as free states
Why did John Brown lead the raid on Harpers Ferry?
to give slaves weapons to revolt against their masters
to give red coats more ammunition
to protect the colonists from destruction
to give slaves a party
