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WorksheetsModule 17: A Divided Nation
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
What free state was added with the Compromise of 1850?
Texas
New Mexico
Utah
California
The loyalty to a part of a nation or region, but not the nation as a whole.
emancipation
sectionalism
conscription
secession
The action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution.
abolition
secession
conscription
sectionalism
An idea that government is created by and subject to the will of the people and also referenced before the Civil War, an idea that people living in a territory had the right to decide by voting if slavery would be allowed there.
Habeas Corpus
Emancipation
Popular Sovereignty
Slave Codes
Authorized government officials to seize and return escaped slaves to their owners and imposed penalties on anyone who aided in their flight.
Slave Codes
Fugitive Slave Act
Emancipation
Conscription
Withdrawal from the Union.
Secession
Emancipation
Conscription
Abolition
The states between the North and the South that were divided over whether to stay in the Union or join the Confederacy.
Cotton Belt
Border State
Habeas Corpus
Ironclad
A Union Soldier
Yankee
Rebel
Ironclad
Cotton Belt
A Confederate soldier, so called because of the opposition to the established government.
Rebel
Yankee
Ironclad
Cotton Belt
To free from slavery
Conscription
Secession
Emancipation
Sectionalism
What was the purpose of the Fugitive Slave Act?
to outlaw the Underground Railroad in the South
to make it easier to catch and return runaway slaves
to outlaw the slave trade and end slavery eventually
to make it a crime to help slaves leave plantations in the South
What was the significance of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Northern leaders started supporting the Fugitive Slave Act.
Southern leaders called for additional slave states.
Many of its readers joined the Union army.
Many of its readers became abolitionists.
___________________ wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852, which described the harshness of slavery.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Anthony Burns
James Hamlet
Louisa McCord
How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act alter parts of the Missouri Compromise?
States north of 36°30' N latitude would be admitted to the Union as slave states.
Slavery could be allowed into all territories of the Louisiana Purchase now.
States south of 36°30' N latitude would be admitted to the Union as free states.
Slavery could be allowed into all territories of the Mexican Cession now.
In 1856 in Kansas,______________ and his sons attacked pro-slavery settlers in Pottawatomie Creek in response to the attack on Lawrence by pro-slavery forces.
John Brown
Preston Brooks
John Doy
Charles Sumner
In response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the _________________was formed, made up of people opposed to the spread of slavery west.
American Party
Free Soil Party
Republican Party
Whig Party
Why did Dred Scott believe he should no longer be a slave?
His previous owner was a citizen of a free state.
He lived in free territories for many years.
His owner’s widow was to have freed him.
He lived in a free state.
Why did John Brown raid the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry?
He planned to help escaped slaves to the North.
He planned to lead a slave rebellion through the South.
He hoped slave owners would free their slaves and abandon their plantations.
He hoped the federal army would come to his assistance and attack slave owners.
Why did leaders in South Carolina believe that their state had the right to secede from the Union?
They believed that any state that allowed slavery had a right to protect itself from federal interference.
They believed that since each state joined the Union voluntarily, each state could leave the Union voluntarily.
They believed that any state that felt threatened by the federal government could leave the Union at any time.
They believed that since each state had different economies, each state could do what was best for its economy.
