Chapter 14: A Nation Divided

Stephen A. Douglas tried to win Southern support for the Kansas-Nebraska Act by allowing the issue of slavery in these territories to be settled by ________.

• Representative Government
• Primary Elections
• Republicanism
• Popular Sovereignty 

One result of "Dred Scott v. Sanford" (1857) Trial was...

• It created greater tension between the slave states and the free states.
• it allowed the resumption of the international slave trade.
• the creation of seperate-but-equal public facilities for whites and blacks.
• that it ended reconstruction in the Southern states.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act called for...

• a ban on slavery in Kansas and Nebraska.
• the residents of Kansas and Nebraska should vote to decide on the issue of slavery.
• the punishment of slaveholders in Kansas for attacks on antislavery settlers.
• land in Kansas and Nebraska to be given to escaped slaves.

The Confederate States of America were...

• a group of Northern states united to bring an end to slavery.
• an agreement among Southern states  to work together to fight laws against slavery.
• the slaveholdiing states that seceded from the Union.
• a new political party created by Southern Democrats.

The poster shown here was printed after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. What conclusion can be made about the consequences of this law?

• Northern law enforcement officials would attempt to capture runaway slaves.
• Northern Law enforcement officials would not be interested in capturing runaway slaves.
• Northerns were more likely than southerners to approve of the capture of runaway slaves.
• Southerners would be forced to capture runaway slaves.

Which literary work exposed the evils of slavery?

• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• The Jungle
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Common Sense

Which statement describes the status of FREE African Americans before the Civil War?

• They were forbidden to live anywhere in the South.
• They voted in all state and federal elections.
• They found work easily in northern factories.
• They were subject to many legal restrictions.

["A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot exist, half slave and half free."]
Which president made this statement?

• George Washington
• Andrew Jackson
• Abraham Lincoln
• Andrew Johnson

John Brown - Hero or Villian? [In 1859 John Brown seized a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in an attempt to begin a slave rebellion. He was captured and later executed.]
Which group of people viewed John Brown as a hero?

• Midwestern farmers
• US government officials
• Abolitionists
• Southern planters

The southern plantation system required the use of slaves because...

• labor-intensive cotton-farming was the principal economic activity the south depended on.
• no white farmers would work for the low wages paid to slaves.
• immigrants came to America to farm their own lands in the west.
• plantation owners refused to use immigrant workers who could not speak english.