A Nation Divided

A Nation Divided

7th - 12th Grade

31 Qs

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A Nation Divided

A Nation Divided

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History

7th - 12th Grade

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Created by

Caryn Coller

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31 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Who was the slave that sued for his freedom?

Fredrick Douglas

John Brown

Nat Turner

Dred Scot

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Name the first state to secede

South Carolina

Texas

North Carolina

Mississippi

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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The most hated provision of the Compromise of 1850 for abolitionists was __________________.

California becoming a free state

The slave trade being abolished in Washington, DC

Utah and New Mexico territories being open to slavery

The Fugitive Slave Act

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by ________________.

Henry Ward Beecher

Herman Melville

Emily Dickinson

Harriet Beecher Stowe

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In the 1857 Dred Scott case, the US Supreme Court ruled that blacks _________________________.

must move to Liberia after emancipation

were not citizens

had limited voting rights

were barred from working in federal jobs

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This law gave southerners more opportunity to have their escaped slaves caught and returned to their masters in the south.

Annexation of Texas

Compromise of 1850

Fugitive Slave Law

Missouri Compromise

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How did the idea of popular sovereignty affect slavery in the United States?
Slavery would not be permitted in unofficial states.
State or territories would decide whether to permit slavery.
Slavery would not be permitted anywhere in the country.
The federal government wold have the last word on slavery. 

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