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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)
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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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