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Disunion

Quiz by Matthew Boone

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  • Q1
    Awakened many free staters to the evils of slavery:
    Uncle Tom's Cabin
    KS-NE Act
    John Brown's Rebellion
    Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
    20s
  • Q2
    What was the most controversial part of the 1850 Compromise?
    CA entering as a free state upset the Senate balance
    New Mexico and Utah were admitted without restrictions on slavery
    slavery was banned in Washington, D.C.
    Fugitive Slave Act
    20s
  • Q3
    Why did many Northerners ignore Taney's opinion in Scott v. Sanford?
    northerners felt the act did not do enough to protect slavery where it already existed
    most northerners had become radical abolitionists by the late 1850s
    his opinion went beyond the main legal issue in the case
    most northerners agreed blacks should have the same rights as whites
    20s
  • Q4
    Which of the following were major effects of the KS-NE Act?
    the formation of the Republican Party and bloodshed in the Midwest
    a short lived period of national unity & the completion of the Transcontinental RR
    the secession of seven southern states & the formation of the Confederate States of America
    the nullification of the Fugitive Slave Laws & John Brown's Raid
    20s
  • Q5
    Initially, this party's antislavery position only involved preventing the SPREAD of slavery into new territories and states:
    Republicans
    Whigs
    Democrats
    10s

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