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Prologue,Less.5: Nation Breaks Apart

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name

Class

Date

An agreement allowing California to enter the Union as a free state but gave other territories in the Southwest the CHOICE to allow slavery or not allow slavery.

Compromise of 1850

Kansas-Nebraska Act

A series of attacks and killings of Americans against Americans that shocked the nation, was called "____ ____."

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______ is the belief that the people have supreme power over government and government is to do what the people want them to do.

Popular Sovereignty

Manifest Destiny

An act that permitted voters of Kansas and Nebraska Territories to decide whether to allow or not allow slavery, using concept of Popular Sovereignty

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Fugitive Slave Act

Name two of the three points of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 that severely angered northern citizens.

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An act passed by congress to appease southern states unhappy w/California entering the union as a free state coupled with giving people in western territories power to decide if they want to allow slavery or not in their state.

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Compromise of 1850

Fugitive Slave Act of 1787

Why were southerners unhappy with the election of Abraham Lincoln?

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What was Abraham Lincoln's #1 goal as president?

Make the south pay a heavy price for slavery

Preserve the union at all costs

Preserve southern culture & tradition at all costs

Free some slaves but not all slaves

To formally withdrawal from membership of a union, alliance, or organization,

confederate

secede

10.

A radical abolitionist who attempted to start a slave rebellion down South and was responsible for deaths of 16 people. He was seen as a hero up North but as the devil down South.

Abraham Lincoln

John Brown

Dred Scott

11.

Name of a new political party, in northern states, created to oppose the spread of slavery

Republican Party

Free-Soil Party

Democratic Party

12.

How were the northern and southern economies different?

agriculture vs manufacturing

Planter class vs everyday/average else

slavery necessary vs slavery evil

13.

How were the northern and southern societies different?

agriculture vs manufacturing

Planter class vs everyday/average else

slavery necessary vs slavery evil

14.

How were the northern and southern long-term goals different?

agriculture vs manufacturing

Planter class vs everyday/average else

slavery necessary vs slavery evil

15.

Title of famous book detailing the horrors of slavery and how slaves are actually treated.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Aunt Mary's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Troubled Life

16.

An attempt to keep balance of power equal between free states and slave states, by allowing to Missouri enter Union as slave state, Maine enters union as a free state, and slavery outlawed above 36𑇑 30‘

Compromise of 1820

Dred Scott Decision

17.

What events led up to violence erupting in Kansas over Slavery?

When Kansas territory opened up, pro- and anti-slavery settlers rushed into the territory to control it.

When Nebraska territory opened up, pro- and anti-slavery settlers rushed into the territory to control it.

18.

Which Supreme Court decision declared that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories?

Compromise of 1850

Missouri Compromise

Dred Scott Decision

19.

What was the main goal of the Free-Soil Party?

Support the Fugitive Slave Act

Oppose the spread of slavery into western territories

Expand slavery into new territories

20.

Who wrote the influential anti-slavery novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?

Sojourner Truth

Frederick Douglass

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Prologue,Less.5: Nation Breaks Apart

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

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