Division and Reunion /Slavery Divides a Nation

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Daily Assignment Questions Chapter 16 Division and Reunion /Slavery Divides a Nation

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

______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) ______

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) ______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) ______

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

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

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

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

______12. How did the Missouri Compromise treat slaves? (slide 9, read the Missouri Compromise 1-4) ______

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

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

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

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) ______18. Why were their acts of violence over the Kansas Nebraska Act? (slide 13) ______

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

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

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

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

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

______24. What did John Brown do in 1859 that caused the North and South to draw apart? (slide 19) ______

25. What is an arsenal? (slide 19)

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

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) ______

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

30. What was the North called in the Civil War? (slide 22, “starts with the letter U”) ______31. What was the South called in the Civil War? (slide 22, “starts with the letter C”) ______

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