Causes of Civil War Ch. 18-19

This allowed residence of a territory to decide whether or not to allow slavery

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Popular Sovereignty

• Freeport Doctrine

What woman led escaped slaves to freedom using the Underground Railroad?

• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Clara Barton
• Harriet Tubman
• Mary Lincoln

Citizens could be jailed or fined for helping runaway slaves because of the

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Democrat Party
• Election of 1852

Which act of Congress added a slave and free state and outlawed slavery in new states North of 36"30' in the Louisiana Territory?

• Compromise of 1850
• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Wilmot Proviso

The California Gold Rush led to which of the following?

• Dred Scott Decision

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

The Compromise of 1850 allowed certain territories to use___________________________ to determine whether the territory would be free or slave.  This decision applied to much of the land gained from the the U.S. Mexican War.

• Three Fifths Compromise
• Raiding
• Popular sovereignty 
• Secession

Which was an effect of the Fugitive Slave Act?

• Northerners agreed with the law.
• Many Southerners became abolitionists.
• Northerners thought it was unjust and used Underground Railroad to defy it.
• Southern plantation owners were no longer allowed to bring back runaway slaves.

Why did the South oppose adding new free states like California to the Union? 

• they believed this would cause more tariffs to be passed
• they believed this could result in the expansion of slavery
• they believed this could result in the break-up of the Union
• they believed this would cause an imbalance in power between slave and free states in Congress

What warning did Abraham Lincoln give the South in his First Inaugural Address?

• He would act to end slavery
• He would act to preserve the Union
• He would act to keep the South dependent on the North

This was a book that was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the evils of slavery. 

• Harriet's Cabin
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Slavery 
• State's Rights