Civil War Causes

Which act allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state, and Maine as a free state?

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Missouri Compromise 1820

Which act brought California in as a free state, and also created Utah and New Mexico.

• Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scott Decision

• Fugitive Slave Law

What novel showed the evils of slavery and was written by Harriett Beecher Stowe?

• Of Mice and Men

• Fugitives

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Life of a Slave

Which slave was taken to the North, but told he could still not be free (even in a free state)?

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Frederick Douglas

• Dred Scott

In the Dred Scott decision, it was decided that:

• African Americans can not be citizens
• There cannot be slaves in free states
• Slavery is illegal
• Maine would be free, Missouri would be slave state

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Who won the Election of 1860?

• Ulysses S Grant
• Jefferson Davis
• Abraham Lincoln
• Uncle Tom

After Lincoln was elected:

• Southern states were happy
• Northern states hated him
• He began to establish more slave states
• Southern states began to secede

In 1861, the first shots of the Civil War were fired at:

• Fort Bragg
• Fort Sumter
• Summer Camp
• Antietam

To break away from a group is called

• state's rights

• slavery

• Gettysburg

• secede

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