02 The Civil War

Political party created in the late-1840s whose goal was to keep slavery out of the western territories.

• Republican Party
• Free-Soil Party
• Constitutional Union Party
• Northern Democratic Party

Primary purpose was to allow California to join the U.S as a free state.

• Missouri Compromise
• California Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Law that required all citizens to help catch escaped slaves.

• Missouri Compromise
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Slave Trade Act

Kept the balance of slave and free states equal by admitting Maine as a free state.

• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Compromise of 1850
• California Compromise

Divided remaining territory from the Louisiana Purchase and used popular sovereignty to decide slavery in the new territories.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Compromise of 1850
• Missouri Compromise
• Dred Scott Decision

Why did abolitionists hate the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Required them to help catch runaway slaves.
• Former free territory may become slave territory.
• It established fraudulent elections.
• It made all western territories open to slavery.

Why did abolitionists oppose the results of the 1855 Kansas elections?

• They were made they lost.
• People had voted illegally.
• The Russians hacked the election.
• John Brown lost.

Why did Dred Scott think he should be a free man?

• He had paid for his freedom.
  
• He had lived in free territory.
  
• He served his owner for many years without complaints.
  
• His owner had died,
  

The Supreme Court overturned this law created in 1819 with their decision in the Dred Scott case.

• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• The Great Compromise
• Fugitive Slave Act

Which political party was weakened by running two candidate in the presidential election of 1860, leading to Abraham Lincoln's victory?

• Republican Party

• Democratic Party

• Constitutional Party

• Whig Party