Ch. 10 Review

Which of the following created a system in which voters from each territory would vote on whether to allow slavery or not?

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Why did Dred Scott believe he should be free?

• he had lived in a free territory

• his master passed away

• the Supreme Court ruled he should be fre

• he could read and write

Southerners justified secession with the theory of _____.

• constitutional rights

• federal rights

• states' rights

• freedom of speech

The following characteristics describe what event?

800 slavery supporters attacked a town

Abolitionist and sons murdered 5 people

Armed groups throughout the state

Federal troops sent in

• Nat Turner Rebellion

• Bacon's Rebellion

• Whiskey Rebellion

• Bleeding Kansas

According to the _____, a person could be fined or imprisoned for aiding runaway slaves.

• Southern Slave Act

• Owners-Rights Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Slave Codes

Who organized an assault on the federal armory located in Harpers Ferry?

• Frederick Douglass

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Brown

• Harriet Tubman

Whose name did not appear on most Southern ballots during the 1860 election?

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Breckenridge

• John Bell

• Stephen A. Douglas

What was the name of the movement that worked for the end of slavery?

• Abolitionism

• Freedom Movement

• Enlightenment

• Equal Rights Movement

Who was the first president of the Confederate States of America?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Robert E. Lee

• Jefferson Davis

• John C. Calhoun

What was the first southern state to seceed?

• South Carolina

• North Carolina

• Texas

• Virginia