Events Leading to Civil War

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

Who wrote the Liberator and worked for the immediate emancipation of all enslaved African Americans?

• Harriet Tubman
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Frederick Douglass
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

What was the effect of the cotton gin on slavery in the South?

• It reduced the need for slaves on plantations.
• It made slavery more important to the South.
• It helped improve the slaves' work conditions.
• It had no significant effect on slaves or slavery.

allowed the federal government to arrest any person accused of being a runaway slave, even in free states

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Wilmot Proviso
• The Declaration of Sentiments
• Harper's Ferry

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 did the Dred Scott decision say?

• It considered slaves to be property without rights.
• It outlawed slavery in all U.S. states
• It required that slavery not be allowed in all new states
• It gave slaves all the rights of U.S. citizens

A consequence of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was:

• violence between pro-slavery and abolitionist groups
• gold was discovered in Nebraska
• John Brown led a slave revolt
• Dred Scott sued for his freedom

The idea that the country could not continue being half and half free was the message of Lincoln's ...

• 1860 State of the Union Address
• "House-Divided Speech"
• Gettysburg Address
• Second Inaugural Address

How did "Uncle Tom's Cabin" help the abolitionist movement?

• It showed Northerners that slavery was a problem
• It created new laws
• It taught many slaves how to read
• It only hurt the reform movement

Which is the best definition of secede?

• something use to plant in the dirt
• rivalry based on the special interests of different areas
• to withdraw or break away from a nation
• the separation or isolation of a race