Road to American Civil War

According to the Missouri Compromise, what would happen in the Louisiana Territory?

• Slavery would be allowed in the entire territory.

• Slavery would be outlawed in the entire territory.

• Slavery would be allowed in the northern part, but illegal in the South.

• Slavery would be allowed in the southern part, but illegal in the North.

According the the Compromise of 1850, northerners were

• allowed to help fugitive slaves escape.

• legally required to help southerners capture fugitive slaves.

• not to be involved with fugitive slaves in any way.

• legally required to help fugitives escape.

What abolitionist leader published the popular anti-slavery newspaper "The Liberator"?

• Denmark Vesey
• Nat Turner
• William Lloyd Garrison
• John C. Calhoun

What abolitionist came from a slave holding S.C. family?

• John Brown
• Angelina Grimke
• William Lloyd Garrison
• John C. Calhoun

What state became a free state as a result of the Missouri Compromise?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Texas
• Florida

Why were Southerners unhappy with the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?

• They said it was not an accurate picture of slavery
• It was written by a Southerner
• It brought attention to the idea of popular sovereignty
• It contained no white characters in the story

What principle of government would allow people to vote to determine the issue of slavery?

• Manifest destiny
• Popular sovereignty
• Republicanism
• Capitalism

What law repealed the Missouri Compromise line by allowing slavery
above it?

• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• The Fugitive Slave Act
• Ordinance of Nullification

What did the Supreme Court rule in the Dred Scott case?

• Slaves were property and had no rights
• That Missouri Compromise line was still in effect
• That popular sovereignty could not be used in the issue of slavery
• That slaves were citizens but had no rights

What radical abolitionist captured a federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Va.?

• John Brown
• Dred Scott
• Nat Turner
• William Lloyd Garrison