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8th grade · Social Studies · Unit 8 of 9

A Nation Divided

The South, abolition and compromise

What your child practices

Cotton and slavery in the South, the resistance of enslaved people, free Black Americans in the North and South, abolitionists, and the compromises and conflicts from the Missouri Compromise to the Dred Scott decision.

California Content Standards learning standard: 8.7.1; 8.7.2; 8.7.4; 8.9.1; 8.9.2; 8.9.3; 8.9.4; 8.9.5; 8.9.6 · the South's economy and slavery, free Black Americans, the abolition movement, and the compromises and conflicts over slavery's spread

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    William Lloyd Garrison published The Liberator to…

    • sell newspapers about sports
    • support slavery
    • call for an immediate end to slavery
    • advertise farms

  2. Question 2

    The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 let settlers…

    • found missions
    • vote on whether to allow slavery
    • ban all farming
    • join Canada

  3. Question 3

    The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 required people in free states to…

    • help return people who had escaped slavery
    • move west
    • free all enslaved people
    • pay no taxes

  4. Question 4

    Harriet Tubman made many trips south to…

    • find gold
    • join the Confederacy
    • lead enslaved people to freedom
    • sell cotton

  5. Question 5

    The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 banned slavery in…

    • the whole country
    • California
    • the South
    • the territory north of the Ohio River

  6. Question 6

    The annexation of Texas in 1845 raised the slavery issue because…

    • Texas banned slavery
    • Texas would enter as a slave state
    • Texas was part of Canada
    • Texas had no people

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