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Section Quiz
A Divided Nation
Section 3
MATCHING In the space provided, write the letter of the term, place,
or person that best 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
c. Dred Scott
______ 3. Slave that sparked controversy by suing for
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
g. John C. Frémont
______ 6. Put the slavery question back in the hands
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
k. Roger B. Taney
______ 9. Handed the abolitionist cause a setback with
its decision in the Dred Scott case
______ 10. Issue that made the Republican Party a
l. slavery
m. Supreme Court
“single-issue party”
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A Divided Nation
SECTION 1
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Missouri Compromise
Wilmot Proviso
sectionalism
Compromise of 1850
John C. Calhoun
Daniel Webster
Anthony Burns
Fugitive Slave Act
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
SECTION 2
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c, Franklin Pierce
b, Democrats
j, Stephen Douglas
f, Kansas-Nebraska Act
e, Kansas
d, John Brown
a, Charles Sumner
h, Preston Brooks
i, slavery
k, The Sack of Lawrence
The Nation Expands
UNIT FOUR BENCHMARK TEST
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SECTION 3
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j, Republican Party
e, James Buchanan
c, Dred Scott
k, Roger B. Taney
a, Abraham Lincoln
d, Freeport Doctrine
i, Lincoln-Douglas
g, John C. Frémont
m, Supreme Court
l, slavery
SECTION 4
1. F, John Brown led the raid on Harpers
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D
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Ferry.
F, Did not come, fearing punishment
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CHAPTER TEST
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1. D
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