Events Leading to Civil War

Who is known as the Great Compromiser?

• Abraham Lincoln
• Stephen Douglas
• Dred Scott
• Henry Clay

1857 ruling declared slaves are property and not citizens and it nullified the Missouri Compromise.

• Dred Scott v Sandford
• McCulloch v Maryland
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Worcester v Georgia

The purpose of John Brown's raid was to....

• steal supplies and sell them for money
• get his name in the local newspapers
• start a slave revolt
• get the 13th amendment passed

Why did southern states begin to secede after Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860?

• Southern states believed Lincoln was an abolitionist
• Southerners believed Lincoln was pro-slavery
• Southern states didn't like Abraham Lincoln as a person
• Southern states believed in the same things as Lincoln

As the publisher of The Liberator, this man was one of the first white Americans to demand the immediate freeing of slaves.

• William Lloyd Garrison
• Henry David Thoreau
• Frederick Douglass
• Ralph Waldo Emerson

Which of the following was not a part of the Missouri Compromise?

• Main came in as a free state
• Maine came in as a slave state
• the balance in Congress stayed equal
• The 36' 30' line was created

The Missouri Compromise Line determined the status of slavery in future states.  North of the line slavery was ___________ or banned, South of the line slavery was _________.

• permitted, prohibited
• prohibited, permitted or allowed
• sometimes prohibited, never allowed
• cheap, expensive

The south was for slavery because

• they wanted to be difficult
• they liked slaves
• their economy depended on slavery
• this is wrong. 

Utah and New Mexico were able to _____________________ 

• decide for themselves whether they wanted slavery or not
• do a little dance
• go to war
• join together

California was admitted as a free state because of the compromise of 1850

• True
• False