Road to Civil War

Dred Scott was famous for ___________.

• being sued by someone else

• suing for his freedom

• being in the military

• being a famous doctor

According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, what would decide whether the territories became free or slave?

• popular sovereignty

• Missouri Compromise

• one would be a slave state, the other a free state

• Rock, Paper, Scissors

In the Fugitive Slave Act, it was ILLEGAL for a northerner to let a runaway slave go free

• True

• False

Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by:

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Dred Scott

• John Brown

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

What is an abolitionist?

• Someone who wants to abolish or end slavery.
• Someone who wants to end voting for slaves.
• Someone who doesn't want to work with slaves.
• Someone who wants to never wear jeans.

_____________ is the process of people deciding on an issue themselves.

• Federalism

• Checks and balances

• Republicanism

• Popular sovereignty

This was a mini-Civil War fought in the Kansas territory between pro-slavery settlers and anti-slavery settlers 

• Missouri Compromise 
• Summer if 1856
• Bleeding Kansas
• Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas

Why were a lot of people moving to Kansas to vote?

• Popular sovereignty was allowing people to vote if they wanted Kansas to be a free state or a slave state

• They wanted Abraham Lincoln to be elected

• They wanted Charles Robinson to be elected Governor

• They really like voting