Road to the Civil War

Which of the following words means that a person places the interests of a small area over the interests of the entire country?

• Nationalism
• Sectionalism
• Popular Sovereignty
• Secession

Every state north of Missouri's southern border had to be what kind of state?

• Free
• Slave
• Frontier
• Sovereign

What idea was introduced by the Compromise of 1850?

• Popular Sovereignty
• Sucession
• Limited Government
• Fugitive Slave Law

Who is the slave or former slave that lost his case, then won his case, then lost his case and then took his case all the way to the Federal Supreme Court and lost his case trying to gain his freedom?

• Stephen Douglas
• Plessy Ferguson
• Dred Scott
• Fredrick Douglas

How did the Federal Supreme Court rule in the Dred Scott case?

• In favor of Dred Scott
• Against Dred Scott

According to the Taney Supreme Court decision, slaves can never be what?

• Citizens
• Landowners
• Paid
• Bought

In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court...

• avoided controversy by ruling that Dred Scott had no right to sue in federal court.
• ruled that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories because slaves were private property.
• ruled that slaves could sue in federal court only if their masters allowed them to do so.
• ruled that a slave that had been transported to a free state or territory was a free citizen of the Untied States.

The Compromise of 1850...

• allowed California to enter as a free state.
• ended the Fugitive Slave law.
• gave all of the land taken from Mexico to Texas.
• banned slaver in Washington D.C.

An abolitionist supported which of the following causes?

• outlawing alcohol
• ending slavery
• limiting slavery to southern states
• ending women's suffrage

Who is associated with the Underground Railroad?

• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Harriet Tubman
• John C. Calhoun
• Frederick Douglass