TCI Lesson 21: A Dividing Nation

1.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

How did Missouri's application as a slave state in 1819 challenge U.S. Law?

It did not have a state constitution

States west of the Mississippi River were to be slave states

It did not have the population required for statehood

States north of the Ohio River were to be free states

2.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What was an effect of the Missouri Compromise?

It temporarily ended the slavery debate

It required southern states to pay higher taxes

It led to the South seceding from the union

It upset the balance of slave and free states in the Union

3.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What was the significance of the 36"30' parallel?

It separated the North from the South

It indicated the northern border of Missouri

It showed the borders of the United States

It indicated where slavery was allowed and banned

4.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What was a fear of Southern senators if there were more free states than slave states?

Losing respect

Losing tax revenue

losing voter power

losing future elections

5.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

According to the Wilmot Proviso of 1846, in which area was slavery banned?

Southern states

Northern states

Louisiana Territory

land acquired from Mexico

6.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

In what way did the Compromise of 1850 appease the South?

It created new taxes for railroad construction

It provided an end to the slave trade in Washington D.C.

It included a law requiring the return of escaped slaves

It required the Underground Railroad to be disbanded

7.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Which two people worked together to balance the interests of the North and the South with regard to slavery?

Daniel Webster and Henry Clay

Nat Turner and John Brown

James Polk and John Quincy Adams

Charles Sumner and Stephen A Douglas

8.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

All of these were reasons the Fugitive Slave Law failed EXCEPT

many slaves moved to Canada

Northerners refused to obey the laws

hounded slave catchers returned to the South

plantation owners did not want returned slaves

9.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What was the impact of the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

It created a slave revolt in Kentucky

It turned many people against slavery

Congress agreed slavery should be abolished

The South became more resolved to secede from the Union

10.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act nullify the Missouri Compromise?

It changed the borders of Missouri

It required that all of Missouri be free

It allowed slavery in new Northern Territories

It established new interstate trade rules

11.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Which of these was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

It led to the violent struggle of slavery in Kansas

It settled the slavery issue in Nebraska

It calmed the country's dispute over slavery

It required the new territories to be free states

12.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What was the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case?

that slavery diminished the national character

that African-American rights were protected under the Constitution

that African-Americans did not have the right to sue in federal court

that slavery should be abolished by executive order

13.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What did John Brown hope to achieve by his raid at Harper's Ferry?

to create a slave rebellion that would put an end to slavery

to bring attention to the conflict between the North and the South

to bring the two sides together to form a new compromise

to create a revolution that would lead to war between the states

14.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What was apparent following the presidential election of 1860?

The nation was divided over slavery

Lincoln was popular throughout the nation

There was little support for abolitionists in the North

Southern states were eager to abolish slavery

15.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Which event turned the secession crisis into a civil war?

the election of Abraham Lincoln

South Carolina's shelling of Fort Sumter

John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry

Preston Brooks's attack on Charles Sumner

16.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Between 1820 and 1860, Americans were divided over

whether Abraham Lincoln should be president

the issue of slavery

abolitionist desires over lower taxes

the process of adding new states to the U.S.

17.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

What did the Missouri Compromise authorize the people of the Missouri Territory to do?

vote on becoming a state

form a state government

vote to allow slavery

decide the size of their state

18.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Congress passed the Missouri Compromise in 1820. What happened in 1849 that threatened to upset the balance between free and slave states?

California applied for admission to the Union as a free state

The people of Missouri voted to secede from the United States

Congress approved the Wilmot Proviso banning slavery in the Mexican Cession

Southerners succeeded in opening all of the Mexican Cession to slavery

19.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

The main issue of the Lincoln-Douglas debates was

John Brown's raid

the future of slavery

who would be the best senator from Illinois

who would be the best president in the 1860 election

20.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

1 pt

Which was the first state to secede from the Union?

Georgia

Virginia

Missouri

South Carolina

21.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

5 pts

The agreements made in order to admit California into the Union as a state without slavery. These agreements included allowing the New Mexico and Utah territories to decide whether to allow slavery, outlawing the trade of enslaved people in Washington, D.C., and creating a stronger fugitive slave law

Compromise of 1850

Wilmot Proviso

Missouri Compromise

Kansas-Nebraska Act

22.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

5 pts

An act passed in 1854 that created the Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers to determine whether slavery would be allowed in the new territories

Compromise of 1850

Wilmot Proviso

Missouri Compromise

Kansas-Nebraska Act

23.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

5 pts

An agreement made by Congress in 1820 under which Missouri was admitted to the Union as a state with slavery and Maine was admitted as a state without slavery

Compromise of 1850

Wilmot Proviso

Missouri Compromise

Kansas-Nebraska Act

24.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

5 pts

A proposal made in 1846 to prohibit slavery in the territory added to the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War

Compromise of 1850

Wilmot Proviso

Missouri Compromise

Kansas-Nebraska Act

25.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

5 pts

The United States as one nation united under a single government. During the Civil War, “the Union” came to mean the government and armies of the North

Union

fugitive

Dred Scott Decision

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

26.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

5 pts

A series of political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, who were candidates in the Illinois race for U.S. senator, in which slavery was the main issue

Union

fugitive

Dred Scott Decision

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

27.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

5 pts

A person who flees or tries to escape (for example, from slavery).

Union

fugitive

Dred Scott Decision

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

28.

Multiple Choice

30 sec

5 pts

A Supreme Court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

Union

fugitive

Dred Scott Decision

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

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