Essential Question Four Quiz

Match the following regions with their differing views on the issue.

• North and South views on public schooling

• Education

• North and South views on economic development

• Trade

• North and South views on human rights

• Slavery

• North and South views on international commerce

• Industrialization

What was mostly abolished in the Northern states, leading them to support abolitionist movements?

• Agriculture

• Slavery

• Industrialization

• Trade

The Southern states' economies relied on what for agriculture, especially cotton?

• Trade

• Slavery

• Industrialization

• Education

What raged over whether new states would be free or slave states?

• Wars

• Debates

• Elections

• Treaties

What was passed to maintain the balance of power between free and slave states, allowing Missouri to enter as a slave state and Maine as a free state?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Fugitive Slave Law

What included measures such as admitting California as a free state and enacting a stricter Fugitive Slave Law?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Dred Scott Decision

Match the following laws and decisions with their impact on the nation.

• Declared African Americans were not citizens

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Allowed territories to decide on slavery, leading to violence

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Maintained balance between free and slave states

• Dred Scott Decision

• Angered Northerners and increased abolitionist sentiment

• Missouri Compromise

The act that allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide on the issue of slavery through popular sovereignty was the (a)   .

• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854
• Fugitive Slave Law

The violent clashes that occurred as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act were known as (a)   .

• Civil War
• Bleeding Kansas
• Dred Scott Decision
• Harpers Ferry Raid

Who was elected President, leading to the secession of Southern states?

• John Brown

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

• Stephen Douglas