Pre-Civil War

* California became a free state
* Utah and New Mexico were created and given popular sovereignty
* ended the slave trade in Washington DC
* Forced a stronger Fugitive Slave Law 

• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Emancipation Proclamation
• State Taxation

* planned to capture weapons in the US arsenal
* wanted slaves to physically fight for their freedom
* radical abolitionist
* led the Pottawatomie Creek Massacre
* caused deaths in Kansas at a raid known as Bleeding Kansas

• Preston Brooks
• John Brown
• Dred Scott
• General Lee

* Kansas and Nebraska joined as a free state
* Erased the Missouri Compromise Line (36* 30* Parallel)
* New territories had popular sovereignty (vote)

• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Scott vs Sanford

What was the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case?

• That slavery diminished the national character.
• That African American rights were protected by the Constitution.
• That African Americans did not have the right to sue in federal court because they were not citizens and did not have rights...they were "property"
• That slavery should be abolished by executive order

Who was the conductor that helped free around 3,000 slaves on the Underground Railroad?

• Fredrick Douglass
• Sojourner Truth
• Harriet Tubman
• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Which novel was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe to expose the cruelty of slavery?

• Little House on the Prairie
• The Liberator
• Slavery must be stopped
• Uncle Tom's Cabin

Which statement best describes the causes of the Civil War

• The North wanted their own slaves
• The south wanted slavery and states' rights
• the south wanted a strong federal government
• The North was angry about Lincoln's death

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a slave state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Ohio

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a free state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Alabama

The ______________was part of the Compromise of 1850 and made it a crime (illegal) to help runaway slaves.

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Fugitive Criminal Act
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• California-Maine Act