History Soars at Pheonix  

Questions: Division and Reunion /Slavery Divides a Nation

 

 

1. In 1848 The Free Soil Party was formed. What was the Free Soil Party? (slide2)

 

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2. Which state was the first slave state to join the Union? (slide3)

 

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3. What was the plan of the Missouri Compromise? (slide3)

 

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4. What were Americans taking sides over? (slide4)

 

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5. Did California join the Union as a free state or a slave state? (slide5)

 

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6. What angered many people in the Union? (slide5)

 

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7. In 1821 how many slave and free states were in the Union?   (slide 6)

 

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8. Who agreed with the compromise? (slide 7)

 

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9. Who disagreed with the compromise? (slide 7)

 

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10. What did Daniel Webster mean in his plea to the senate? (slide 8)

 

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11. Who became President in 1850? (slide 9)

 

 

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12. How did the Missouri Compromise treat slaves? (slide 9,  read the Missouri Compromise 1-4)

 

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13. What did the Fugitive Slave Act state? (slide 10)

 

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14. Who wrote the novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin? (slide 11)

 

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15. Why did Stowe write the novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin? (slide 11)

 

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16. What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act set up? (slide 12)

 

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17. What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act say about the issue of slavery? (slide 13)

 

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18. Why were their acts of violence over the Kansas Nebraska Act?   (slide 13)

 

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19. What did the Supreme Court of the U.S. say in the Dred Scott Decision? (slide 14)

 

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20. What was the goal of the Republican Party? (slide 15)

 

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21. Why did people call Abraham Lincoln, “Honest Abe?” (slide 16)

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22. What did Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas debate over?  (slide 17)

 

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23. What did Abraham Lincoln mean in his words on slide 18? 

 

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24. What did John Brown do in 1859 that caused the North and South to draw apart?  (slide 19)

 

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25. What is an arsenal? (slide 19)

 

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26. Who became President in 1861? (slide 20)

 

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27. When the Southern states succeeded from the United States they formed the _________________________. (Fill in the blank, slide 21)

 

 

28. Who was Jefferson Davis? (slide 21)

 

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29. What happened on April 12, 1861? (slide 22)

 

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30. What was the North called in the Civil War? (slide 22, “starts with the letter U”)

 

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31. What was the South called in the Civil War? (slide 22, “starts with the letter C”)

 

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32. On July of 1861, where did Union Soldiers clash with Confederate soldiers? (slide 22)

 

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