Events that led to the Civil War

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 established that slavery could not spread into new territory north of which line of latitude?

• 35'30

• 36'30

• 37'30

• 38'30

__________________ became a slave state as a result of the Missouri Compromise.

• Michigan

• Maine

• Minnesota

• Missouri

In 1848, the US acquired a vast amount of territory after its' victory over ____________.

• Mexico

• France

• Great Britain

• Spain

The acquisition of this new land led to the Compromise of ____________.

• 1848

• 1849

• 1850

• 1851

The Compromise of 1850 made ___________ a free state.

• California

• Utah

• Maine

• Missouri

The most hated provision of the Compromise of 1850 for abolitionists was __________________.

• California becoming a free state

• The slave trade being abolished in Washington, DC

• Utah and New Mexico territories being open to slavery

• The Fugitive Slave Act

The Compromise of 1850 made ________________ illegal in Washington, DC

• the slave trade

• indentured servitude

• slavery

The Christiana Riot occurred in Lancaster County in 1851. Even though the Fugitive Slave Act protected slaveowners right to re-capture runaway slaves, the Christiana Riot showed that fugitives, free blacks and some white Northerners would ______________.

• resist attempts to re-capture fugitive slaves

• give in to attempts to re-capture fugitive slaves

Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by ________________.

• Henry Ward Beecher

• Herman Melville

• Emily Dickinson

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin contributed to more white Americans coming to the conclusion that slavery was ________________.

• justified

• wrong