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FIRST AND LAST NAME
SS CLASS PRD.
QUIZ C: chapter 15, A Nation Breaking Apart
Directions: Select the best answer for each of the following items.
1. _____ Besides slavery (cause) what other issue divided (effect) the Northern and Southern States in the middle 1800s?
a. State's Rights - States can overrule national laws
c. Income Tax - a taxes paid depending on money made
b. Manifest Destiny - the expansion of the U.S.
d. Suffrage - women's right to vote
2. _____ Why (cause) did different areas of the country have different views on slavery (effect) in mid-1800s?
a. South's economy relied on slaves/plantation work
c. South unable get enough immigrants to do farm work
b. North's economy relied on slaves/plantation work
d. North had never allowed slavery
3. _____ Which of the following was not a result (effect) of the Compromise of 1850?
a. California becomes a "free state"
c. slavery outlawed in Washington, DC
b. Fugitive Slave Act
d. slavery outlawed in all new territories
4. _____ As a result (effect) of the Fugitive Slave Act (1850)...
c. slavery would only be legal in the Southern states
a. runaway slaves could be claimed by anyone
b. slaves reaching the northern states were free
d. runaway slaves had to be returned; unlawful not to help
5. _____ What did Harriet Beecher Stowe do in 1852 (cause) that resulted in (effect) an increased attention to slavery.
a. started an armed slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry
c. wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin
b. wrote the book Little Women
d. actively protested the Dred Scott ruling
6. _____ What was a major result (effect) of the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854?
a. fighting between pro and anti slavery groups
c. opening the area to immigrants caused a land rush
b. Kansas became a slave state
d. slave owners were forced to give up slaves
7. _____ What was the reason (cause of) the Supreme Court ruling against Dred Scott in 1857?
a. slavery was a legal contract that could not be broken c. slaves were property and had no rights in court
b. because he had left the north; he was a slave again
d. Supreme Court actually ruled in favor of Dred Scott
8. _____ Which of the following was not a result (effect) of the Supreme Court's ruling against Dred Scott in 1857?
a. government could make no laws regarding slavery
c. past laws on slavery were not constitutional/legal
b. Dred Scott and his wife would remain slaves
d. slavery would no longer be legal in any states
9. _____ Even though Abraham Lincoln lost the election for the Senate in 1858 (cause) to Stephen Douglas,
what result (effect) did his participation in that election later have on him and how he was viewed/known for?
a. Northern states saw him as a opponent of abolition
c. Southern states saw him as a opponent of suffrage
b. showed he did not have good leadership skills
d. became well known as an opponent of slavery
10. _____ What happened as a result (effect) of Abraham Lincoln being elected President in 1860,
even before he was inaugurated and took office?
a. the Wilmot Proviso was approved
c. weapons storage area at Harper's Ferry was attacked
b. seven states seceded from the United States
d. the Dred Scott decision was overturned
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