Civil War

What is popular sovereignty?

• people rule
• king or queen rule
• freedom and rights
• Snoop Dogg rules

What did the Fugitive Slave Act do?

• Allow escaped slaves in the North to remain free

• Force escaped slaves in the South back into slavery

• Nothing, it never passed

• Force Northerners to assist Southern slave-owners in recapturing escaped slaves

What part of the Compromise of 1850 upset the North the most?

• Allowing California in as a free state
• Ending the slave trade in Washington DC
• using popular sovereignty to decide Utah and New Mexico
• the stricter Fugitive Slave Act

Which of the following is NOT a condition of the Compromise of 1850?

• California joins as a free state.
• Ended selling of slaves in Washington D.C. 
• Maine was admitted as a free state.
• A new Fugitive Slave Act was passed.

This act tried to maintain a balance of power in Congress between the southern slave states and the northern free states

• Compromise of 1850
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Missouri Compromise 1820

This slave was taken to the North, but told he could still not be free (even in a free state)

• Harriet Tubman
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Frederick Douglas
• Dred Scott

In the Dred Scott decision, it was decided that:

• African Americans can not be citizens
• There cannot be slaves in free states
• Slavery is illegal
• Maine would be free, Missouri would be slave state

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Who won the Election of 1860?

• Ulysses S Grant
• Jefferson Davis
• Abraham Lincoln
• Uncle Tom

After Lincoln was elected:

• Southern states were happy
• Northern states hated him
• He began to establish more slave states
• Southern states began to secede

Even though these states had slavery, they did not join the Confederate states.

• Western States
• State of Confusion
• Border States
• Southern States