Antebellum & Civil War

Stephen A. Douglas proposed letting the people decide about slavery through

• popular sovereignty
• states' choice
• free choice 
• people's choice

The main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates was

• Western territories

• war with Mexico

• slavery

• the economy

Southerners justified secession with the theory of

• constitutional rights

• federal rights

• the Union's errors

• states' rights

According to the _______ a person could be fined or imprisoned for aiding fugitives

• southern slave act

• owners-right act

• fugitive slave act

• runaway slave act

What book by Harriet Beecher Stowe showed slavery as a brutal, cruel system?

• Slavery in the South

• Slavery's System

• African Americans in Slavery

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

What was the first territory to shed blood in the Civil War?

• Texas

• Kansas

• Missouri

• South Carolina

What Supreme Court decision divided the nation even more?

• Fugitive slave case

• Dred Scott case

• Clay's ruling

• John Brown case

Who was the senator from Kentucky who tried to save the Union with a last-minute compromise?

• John Calhoun

• John Bell

• Henry Clay

• John Crittenden

Many Southerners were pleased with the result of the Dred Scott case.

• True

• False

Many slaves saw John Brown as a great hero.

• True

• False