Causes of the Civil War

The Compromise of 1850 allowed certain territories to use popular sovereignty to determine whether the territory would be free or slave. This decision applied to much of the land gained from the ...

• Texas Revolution

• War of 1812

• US Mexican War

• Civil War

Which of these correctly describe an effect of the Compromise of 1850 on escaped slaves and freedmen?

• Members of both groups were captured under the Fugitive Slave Law.

• Unlike freedmen, escaped slaves were welcomed in the gold mines of California.

• Members of both groups could be sold in Washington DC, slave markets.

• Unlike escaped slaves, freedmen could vote in the territories of the Mexican Cession.

What was the fundamental question addressed in each of these congressional acts?

• Should the US expand westward?

• Should states be allowed to nullify federal laws?

• Should slave labor be allowed in new states?

• Should states be able to secede from the Union?

• The abolitionist movement gained momentum in the North.

• Members of the US Senate sought to end Black Codes in the Southern States.

• The Federal Government allowed the expansion of slavery into all new western territories.

• Abolitionist moved to the South to avoid living under the new law.

Which of the following was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?

• Kansas entered the Union as a slave state through popular sovereignty in 1856.

• Fighting broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in Kansas.

• Nebraskan settlers who supported abolition moved to Kansas.

• The boundary established by the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was extended farther south.

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• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Gibbons v. Ogden

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Worcester v. Georgia

• Northerners who believed the law was unfair began to support the abolitionist movement.

• Religious groups left the abolitionist movement to avoid political controversy.

• Southerns used the law to challenge the constitutionality of the abolitionist goals.

• Abolitionist societies began to focus their efforts on promoting women's suffrage.

• The profits from book sales funded early labor organizations.

• Congress was inspired to pass laws outlawing the abuse of slaves.

• The Supreme Court overturned the Fugitive Slave Laws.

• Support grew for the abolitionist movement.

This man led a raid at Harper's Ferry to show people they could use violence to try and end slavery.

• Abraham Lincoln

• Robert E. Lee

• John Brown

• Jefferson Davis