House Divided Speech Quizzes
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Q. Why was Kansas "bleeding" in 1856?
Unusual climate patterns brought out reddish earth that made it look like the ground was bloody.
The first battles of the Civil War took place after the new Confederates fired on a fort in Lawrence, KS.
After pro-slavery people from across the border in neighboring states crossed over to vote fraudulently in Kansas' election, violence broke out in Lawrence and a number of people were killed.
Local Native American tribes fought back against encroachment on their territory as the land started to be incorporated into the United States.
Q. What did the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 have in common, aside from being compromises?
They were both efforts to keep the balance of power in Congress between slave states and free states.
They were both engineered by Stephen A. Douglas.
They each delineated regions of the country for slavery based on specific latitudinal and longitudinal lines.
They both taught congressmen a valuable lesson on how to work together to find a middle ground, leading to some very moving moments of bipartisanship.
Q. All of the following were significant motivations for antebellum-era abolitionists except:
the Second Great Awakening
fears of economic domination by slaveholders
the Fugitive Slave Law
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Q. What was unusual about the election of 1860?
There were four candidates from four different parties, at least three of which had a real chance.
It was the first time the popular vote was used to figure out who won.
It was so close, Congress had to pick the victor.
Everyone was really nice to each other and debated the issues calmly and respectfully.
Q. How did the Mexican-American War most directly contribute to the "house divided"?
Sectionalism over whether or not there should be a war created a new divide in the previously unified nation.
The war gave the U.S. a huge amount of territory, and arguments over how to allocate slavery in that land created a huge amount of tension between North and South.
The suggestion that people already living in the territory from Mexico should be considered slaves as prisoners of war caused outrage in most of the North.
A number of people in the U.S. really didn't want the country to get any bigger, because it was just making traffic worse and causing housing prices to skyrocket.