Q4, Test 4 Unit 8: A Nation Divided

Front

Was slavery the root cause of the Civil War?

Back

True

Front

How did the Fugitive Slave Law affect free blacks in the North?

Back

Even if you were a free person, the courts could send you into slavery

Front

Did Stephen Douglass think the transcontinental railroad would bind the country together?

Back

True

Front

What is popular sovereignty?

Back

Idea the white male citizen can vote on a topic such as slavery and their decision will become law

Front

Who 'flocked' to Kansas from neighboring pro-slavery states so they could (allegedly) illegally vote to make Kansas a slave state?

Back

Border Ruffians

Front

Which statement about Bleeding Kansas is NOT true?

Back

Kansas eventually entered the Union as a slave state and seceded once the Civil War began.

Front

What was Dred Scott's argument for being a free person and not a slave? (From the Supreme Court Case Dred Scott v Sandford)

Back

He had lived in a free territory so was not a slave any longer.

Front

US Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney ruled in the Dred Scott decision that black people were "so inferior that they had no _________ which the white man was bound to respect."

Back

rights

Front

Who led the raid on Harper's Ferry, VA in an attempt to steal weapons and give them to slaves?

Back

John Brown

Front

The Republican Candidate in the Presidential Election of 1860 was

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Abraham Lincoln