Road to Civil War

What required citizens to help catch enslaved people who ran away?

• Missouri Compromise

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Underground Railroad

• Manifest Destiny

What network did Northerners use to help runaway slaves escape?

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Missouri Compromise

• North Star

• Underground Railroad

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• Harriet Tubman

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• J. K. Rowling

Stephen A. Douglas proposed that settlers should decide the issue of slavery in their territory. What is this called?

• Popular sovereignty

• States' rights

• Sectionalism

• Missouri Compromise

Who was the abolitionist that led a revolt at Harpers Ferry?

• Frederick Douglass

• Stephen A. Douglas

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• John Brown

What happened during the vote for Kansas to become a free or slave territory?

• The residents did not vote.

• Missouri residents voted in Kansas.

• Iowa won the vote.

• Kansas became a state.

How was California admitted as a state?

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• California Gold Rush

• Compromise of 1850

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• caused a "Bleeding" civil war

• allowed Missouri to become a state

• said slaves could not be traded in Washington, DC

• brought peace to the area

Why was it difficult for states to be admitted to the United States in the 40 years before the Civil War?

• Eastern states did not want the Western states

• The Supreme Court banned them

• Congress did not want to upset the balance between free and slave states

• People were too busy with the Gold Rush

What act led to a civil war before the actual Civil War started?

• Arizona-New Mexico Act

• Missouri Compromise

• the Alamo

• Kansas-Nebraska Act