A Divided Nation

True/False: California entered the union as a free state.

• True

• False

This law made it a crime to help runaway slaves.

• Runaway Slave Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Slave Act of 1853

• Free-Soil Act

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this book in 1852, which talked about the cruelties of slavery.

• All Quiet on the Western Front

• The Red Badge of Courage

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Uncle Bob's Cabin

Who won the Election of 1852?

• Franklin Pierce

• Martin Van Buren

• Millard Fillmore

• Abraham Lincoln

This act divided the remainder of the Louisiana Purchase into two territories where people would vote on the issue of slavery.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Iowa-Nebraska Act

• The Pierce Act

• The Anti-slavery Act of 1853

The event on May 24, 1856 where John Brown and his men killed five pro-slavery men in Kansas, this was known as the ____________.

• Massacre of 1856

• Kansas Massacre

• Pottawatomie Massacre

• Powhatan Massacre

A political party united against the spread of slavery in the West.

• Republican

• Democratic

• Whig

• Know-Nothing

Who sued the United States for their freedom after returning to Missouri from Wisconsin?

• Jimi Hendrix

• Dred Scott

• Fredrick Douglas

• Harriett Tubman

True/False: Abraham Lincoln said that the United States could NOT be half free and half slave.

• True

• False

Match the following:

• President #15

• James Buchanan

• President #14

• Franklin Pierce

• President #16

• Abraham Lincoln