A Dividing Nation

Question 1

Compromise

Answer 1

A agreement or settlement reached on each side of the debate

Question 2

Secede

Answer 2

Withdraw formally from membership in a federal union

Question 3

Abolition

Answer 3

An action or an act of abolishing a system

Question 4

Racism

Answer 4

A person that labalize someone by there skin color

Question 5

Segregation

Answer 5

An act or state of setting someone aside from a group

Question 6

Reformer

Answer 6

A person devoted to bringing about reform in politics or society

Question 7

Discrimination

Answer 7

Treating someone drifter end just because of there race or sex

Question 8

Emancipation

Answer 8

Freeing someone from slavery

Question 9

Underground Railroad

Answer 9

Network of save houses and routes for slaves who are trying to escape there owner

Question 10

Fugitive

Answer 10

A person who escapes something or slow one

A slave who escapes there owner

Question 11

Significants of the south Caroline bombing at fort Sumter

Answer 11

The bombing started the civil war

Question 12

What lead to a violent struggle over slavery in Kansas

Answer 12

The north finally stood up to slavery and said. No more and fought the south there was blood

Question 13

What where southern senators afraid of if there were more free slave states them slave states

Answer 13

They were scared because what if slaves started to rebel hey case they knew that half the state was free.

Question 14

What was a result of the Kansas Nebraska act

Answer 14

There was a fight between the north and the south

Question 15

What happened in February of 1861

Answer 15

Form the confederate states if America

Question 16

What were the results of the Supreme Court decision of the Dred Scott decision

Answer 16

They sued him for his freedom

Question 17

How did Missouri applying for statehood in 1819 challenge the Us law

Answer 17

It made no one happy because half of the state was free and half wasn’t

Question 18

What impact did the book Uncle toms cabin have on the US

Answer 18

A novel that made many people angry in the north about slavery

Question 19

What was made clear by the presidential election of 1860’

Answer 19

Lincoln won by only 40 percent of votes

Question 20

Dred Scott

Facts

Answer 20

He got sued for his freedom

Also was a slave

Question 21

Mumbet

Answer 21

First black women to file in court

And she court

Question 22

Margaret Garner

Answer 22

She killed her own kids

a slaved women who tried to escape

Question 23

Harriet Tubman

Answer 23

Escaped slavery

Went back to where slaves are and brought them to freedom

Question 24

John brown

Answer 24

Was a abolition

Thought that the only way to stop slavery was by force

Question 25

Frederick Douglass

Answer 25

Escaped slavery

Then came a leader of the abolition movement

Question 26

How was the compromise of 1850 a victory for the south

Answer 26

Because they banned slavery in Washington DC

Also fugitive slave act

Question 27

Abraham Lincoln said that ‘A house divided against itself cannot stand’ what did he mean by that

Answer 27

Of one half of the world is free slave and the other half isn’t there is bound to be a war

Question 28

What was the impact of Abraham Lincoln as a result of the Lincoln- Douglass debate

Answer 28

He made a very big difference to slaves

Question 29

What did the 36-30 parrallel identify

Answer 29

Imaginary line half way through Loisiana
North of the line slavery was banned
South if the line slaveholding was permitted

Question 30

What was the result of the Missouri compromise

Answer 30

Missouri was a slave state and Maine was a free slave state

BUT NO ONE WAS HAPPY

Question 31

Why did the fugitive slave act fail

Answer 31

Because people still broke the rules to save fugitives