Name
Class
Date
Section Quiz
A Divided Nation
Section 1
FILL IN THE BLANK For each of the following statements, fill in the
blank with the appropriate word, phrase, or name.
1. The
of 1820 prohibited slavery north of latitude
36˚30'.
2. Referring to the Mexican Cession, the
stated that
“neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of [the]
territory.”
3. Differences between Northerners and Southerners over the issue of slavery is an
example of
.
4. Proposed by Henry Clay, the
called for the admission
of California as a free state, among other provisions.
5. Senator
of South Carolina asked that the slave states
be allowed “to separate and part in peace.”
6. On March 7, 1850, Senator
of Massachusetts spoke in
front of the Senate in favor of the Compromise of 1850.
7. Fugitive slave
from Virginia was arrested in Boston in
1854.
8. The
made it a crime to help runaway slaves and
allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas.
9. Within a decade of its publication in 1862,
, an anti-
slavery novel that electrified the nation, had sold 2 million copies.
10. Abraham Lincoln is said to have once referred to
as
“the little lady who made this big war.”
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Name
Class
Date
Section Quiz
A Divided Nation
Section 2
MATCHING In the space provided, write the letter of the term, place, or
person that matches that description. Some answers will not be used.
______ 1. Democratic presidential nominee in 1852
a. Charles Sumner
______ 2. party whose candidate won the presidency
b. Democrats
in 1852
______ 3. wanted to run a railroad to the Pacific from
c. Franklin Pierce
d. John Brown
Chicago
______ 4. act that divided the remainder of the
Louisiana Purchase in two
e. Kansas
f. Kansas-Nebraska Act
______ 5. territory with two governments in 1856
______ 6. abolitionist who led an attack along the
g. Nebraska
h. Preston Brooks
Pottawatomie Creek
______ 7. Senator from Massachusetts who criticized
the pro-slavery population of Kansas
______ 8. beat a Senator unconscious with a cane
______ 9. Debate over the expansion of this practice
influenced the election of 1852.
______ 10. May 1856 eruption of violence that engulfed
i. slavery
j. Stephen Douglas
k. The Sack of Lawrence
l. Whigs
m. Winfield Scott
a Kansas town
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Name
Class
Date
Section Quiz
A Divided Nation
Section 3
MATCHING In the space provided, write the letter of the term or person
that matches that description. Some answers will not be used.
______ 1. formed in 1854 by groups united against the
spread of slavery in the West
a. Abraham Lincoln
b. Congress
______ 2. won the presidential election of 1856
______ 3. slave that sparked controversy by suing for
c. Dred Scott
d. Freeport Doctrine
his freedom in 1846
______ 4. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1857
e. James Buchanan
______ 5. Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate
f. John Emerson
from Illinois in 1858
______ 6. put the slavery question back in the hands
g. John Frémont
h. Know-Nothings
of American citizens
______ 7. debates held in Illinois in 1858 regarding the
spread of slavery in the West
i. Lincoln-Douglas
j. Republican Party
______ 8. Republican nominee for president in 1856
______ 9. handed the abolitionist cause a setback with
its decision in the Dred Scott case
______ 10. issue that made the Republican Party a
k. Roger B. Taney
l. slavery
m. Supreme Court
“single-issue party”
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Name
Class
Date
Section Quiz
A Divided Nation
Section 4
TRUE/FALSE Mark each statement T if it is true or F if it is false. If false
explain why.
______ 1. John C. Breckinridge led the raid on Harpers Ferry.
______ 2. African Americans came to Harpers Ferry to take part in the uprising.
______ 3. South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union.
______ 4. The Confederate States of America formed its own constitution that guar-
anteed the right to own slaves.
______ 5. In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln did not carry any southern
states.
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