A Nation Breaking Apart Test

Question 1

When Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, it…

Answer 1

Guaranteed basic rights for settlers and banned slavery there

Question 2

Who convinced Congress to agree to the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

Answer 2

Henry Clay

Question 3

What were the 3 main conditions of the Missouri Compromise?

Answer 3

1. Missouri would enter the US as a slave state
2. Maine would enter the US as a free state
3. Slavery would be prohibited anywhere north of Missouri’s southern border (36’30 Latitude)

Question 4

Despite the success of the Missouri Compromise when it was passed in 1820, there were still strong disagreements between the North and the South over…

Answer 4

The expansion of slavery

Question 5

Who was Harriet Tubman?

Answer 5

• Escaped slave
• The most famous and brave conductor of the Underground Railroad
• Led 300 escaped slaves to freedom

Question 6

Who was Frederick Douglass? What did he do?

Answer 6

An escaped slave who wrote and spoke out against slavery.

• Biography: The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass
• Newspaper: The North Star

Question 7

Who was William Lloyd Garrison? What did he do?

Answer 7

An American journalist and reformer who published the famous antislavery newspaper: The Liberator

Question 8

What did Harriet Beecher Stowe write? What was it about? Why was the book written?

Answer 8

Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Described the harsh conditions of slavery
Written in response to the fugitive slave law

Question 9

What did Francis Wright do?

Answer 9

Bought land outside Memphis and started a biracial community of freed slaves and whites called Nashoba

Question 10

Who was Elihu Embree? What did she do?

Answer 10

The son of a Quaker minister who moved to TN and published a monthly newspaper called The Emancipator

Question 11

The Emancipator was the first publication in the US devoted to what?

Answer 11

Ending slavery

Question 12

What were main conditions of the Compromise of 1850?

Answer 12

• California would enter the Union as a free state (Free States would now outnumber slave states)
• Mexican Cession territories would be ruled by popular sovereignty (people decide slavery or not)
• Passed the Fugitive Slave Act

Question 13

What were the conditions of the Fugitive Slave Act (Part of Compromise of 1850)?

Answer 13

• > Made it illegal to help runaway slaves
  • > Abolished slave trade in Washington, D.C.
  • > Allowed slave catchers to come to free states to find escaped slaves

Question 14

What was the name given to the massive debate in the Senate over the Compromise of 1850?

Answer 14

The Great Debate

Question 15

Which people was The Great Debate mainly between?

Answer 15

John C. Calhoun and Webster//Henry Clay

Question 16

Who does Webster support?

Answer 16

Henry Clay

Question 17

Where was Calhoun from?

Answer 17

South Carolina

Question 18

What was Calhoun’s position about the compromise of 1850?

Answer 18

Denounced it (southern/for slavery) ; thought that the only solution was secession

Question 19

What was Henry Clay//Webster’s opinion on the Compromise of 1850?

Answer 19

Supported it - Clay proposed it

Question 20

Congress finally (passed, rejected) the Compromise of 1850

Answer 20

Passed

Question 21

What were the conditions of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Answer 21

1. Allowed for the statehood of Kansas
2. Let each new state (Kansas + Nebraska territories) decide whether or not to have slavery by popular sovereignty (people vote directly)

Question 22

What happened after the Kansas/Nebraska Act was passed and during the vote for Kansas to become a free or slave state?

Answer 22

Thousands of slavery supporters and abolitionists fled to Kansas to vote illegally.

Question 23

Once thousands of slavery supporters and abolitionists fled to Kansas to vote illegally, violence broke out. It is called what?

Answer 23

Bloody Kansas/Bleeding Kansas.

Question 24

Kansas was eventually decided to become a…

Answer 24

Slave state (balance of power was restored from CA)

Question 25

Who was John Brown?

Answer 25

• Violent Abolitionist

- Involved in bleeding Kansas

Question 26

John Brown led two revolts in attempt to free slaves in…

Answer 26

Pottawatoami Creek, KS and Harper’s Ferry, VA

Question 27

John Brown murdered 5 slavery supporters in Kansas. He was later captured and put on trial for murder. Southerners feared John Brown’s raid because…

Answer 27

There must be others like him in the North who are willing to die to end slavery

Question 28

What did Charles Sumner (Abolitionist) do to Andrew Butler (Supporter of slavery) during Congress?

Answer 28

Personally insulted Butler

Question 29

Preston Brooks (A relative of Butler) responded to Sumner insulting Butler by…

Answer 29

Using a walking cane to beat sumner

Question 30

Douglas proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act because:

Answer 30

He assumed that Kansas and Nebraska would become free states (due to their location + economy) so Douglas could build a railroad from Indiana to the Pacific

Question 31

Describe the Republican Party:

Answer 31

-Formed to stop the expansion of slavery

Question 32

Explain the Dred Scott case:

Answer 32

• Dred Scott was a slave who was brought to free states by his master
• Sued for his freedom because he was in a free state, so slavery shouldn’t be allowed there.

Question 33

What were the main questions about the case when it got to the Supreme Court?

Answer 33

Can a slave sue for his freedom?
Is a slave property?
Is slavery illegal?

Question 34

What was the decision of the Dred Scott Case?

Answer 34

Slaves are not citizens and are not citizens

Question 35

The Dred Scott case was so controversial that it…

Answer 35

Split the Democratic Party

Question 36

Lincoln and Douglas, both running for senate, debated over…

Answer 36

The expansion of slavery

Question 37

Give Lincoln’s and Douglas’s opinion on slavery

Answer 37

Lincoln - Against slavery; “If slavery is not wrong, then nothing is.”
Douglass - Wanted slavery to be decided by the people (Pro-slavery)

Question 38

What was one of Lincoln’s famous speeches during the debates?

Answer 38

“A House Divided against itself cannot stand. Either we become one or another.”