Quiz: A Dividing Nation

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In the Missouri Compromise
- Missouri became a free state, Maine became a slave state and the 36/30 line divided the rest of the nation
- Missouri became a slave state, Maine became a free state and the 36/30 line divided the rest of the Louisiana Territory
- Missouri and Maine became free states and anything below the 36/30 line became open to slavery
- Maine became a free state, Missouri became a slave state and the people in Louisiana territory could decide for themselves
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In the compromise of 1850
- California became a slave state and slavery was ended in Washington DC
- the Slave trade was ended in Washington DC, but Utah and New Mexico would be closed to slavery forever
- California became a free state, and Missouri became a slave state
- Utah and New Mexico became open to slavery and California became a free state
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The compromise of 1850 included a law to help slave owners recapture runaway slaves called the
- Runaway Slave Act
- The Fugitive from Slavery Act
- The Fugitive Slave Law
- The Emancipation Proclamation
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Uncle Tom's Cabin was written be
- Harriet Stowe
- Harriet Tubman
- Stephen Douglas
- John Brown
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Turned millions of Northerners against slavery
- Turned millions of Southerners against slavery
- Turned millions of Northerners into proslavery people
- Was loved by everyone in the nation
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The Kansas - Nebraska Act
- Created the territories of Kansas - Nebraska and made them open to slavery
- Included popular sovereignty, which allowed the people there to vote on whether or not to have slavery
- Included popular sovereignty, which meant that the people had no say in whether or not slavery would be there
- Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and made one open to slavery and one closed to slavery
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One direct result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was
- Bleeding Kansas
- The attack on Charles Sumner in the US Senate
- The creation of the Republican Party
- All of the above
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The Dred Scott Decision proclaimed that
- Slavery in the territories was illegal and the Missouri Compromise should be upheld
- Dred Scott and all African Americans were citizens, but still property
- The Missouri Compromise was illegal because it limited individual property rights
- That Dred Scott should be sold to a new owner
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John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry frightened Southerners, but many of them were more disturbed by
- The North's reaction to Brown as a martyr
- The reaction of slaves to Brown's plan
- The way other Southern people felt about Brown
- Copycats who tried to imitate Brown
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The secession of the southern states was a direct result of which event
- The bombing of Fort Sumter
- The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
- The Election of 1860
- John Brown's Raid
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The new nation created by the south was called
- The Articles of Confederation
- The United States of Southern America
- The United Cotton States of America
- The Confederate States of America
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The event that turned the secession crisis into a civil war was
- John Brown's Raid
- Fort Sumter
- The Election of 1860
- The secession of the Southern States

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A Dividing Nation

In the Missouri Compromise

In the compromise of 1850

The compromise of 1850 included a law to help slave owners recapture runaway slaves called the

Uncle Tom's Cabin was written be

Uncle Tom's Cabin

The Kansas - Nebraska Act

One direct result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was

The Dred Scott Decision proclaimed that

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry frightened Southerners, but many of them were more disturbed by

The secession of the southern states was a direct result of which event

The new nation created by the south was called

The event that turned the secession crisis into a civil war was

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