Road to the Civil War Quiz

The main challenge America faced from its founding to the Civil War was what to do about ___________.

• Taxes

• Voting

• Health Care

• Slavery

This law allowed California to enter as a free state, opened up the rest of the Mexican Cession to slavery via popular sovereignty, banned slave trading in Washington, D.C., and required a harsh new fugitive slave law.

• Missouri Compromise

• Great Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• New York Compromise

This is the idea that since political power belongs to the people, they should decide on banning or allowing slavery in their territory.

• abolition

• secession

• popular sovereignty

• states' rights

This law made it a crime to help runaway slaves and forced people in free states to help the police round up escaped slaves.

• Personal Liberty Law

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Slave Hunter Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this novel in 1852, which described the horrors of slavery.

• The Terrible South

• The Evils of Slavery

• 12 Years a Slave

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

In 1854, this law opened up more western territories to slavery with popular sovereignty, repealing the Missouri Compromise's restriction on slavery there.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Wilmot Proviso

• Secession Act

When thousands of pro- and anti- slavery men poured into Kansas and started fighting a bloody civil war against each other, this was called...

• The Devastation of Kansas

• Wounded Kansas

• The Kansas Massacre

• Bleeding Kansas

This political party was formed in 1854 with the main goal of stopping the expansion of slavery into the territories.

• Democratic Party

• Republican Party

• Whig Party

• Constitutional Union Party

This term refers to a person who wanted to get rid of slavery everywhere.

• secessionist

• colonist

• sectionalist

• abolitionist

This is when people cared more about helping their own region of the country than about what was good for the United States as a whole.

• sectionalism

• abolitionism

• capitalism

• communism