Steps to the Civil War

All of the following are things that led up to the Civil War EXCEPT

• The invention of the Cotton Gin

• The Emancipation Proclamation

• The Dred Scott Decision

• John Brown's Raid

• The Missouri Compromise

When the southern states left the Union, they created the

• United States of America

• Republic of America

• Confederate States of America

• Slaveholder States of America

Which event allowed expansion to the west by balancing the entry of a slave state with a free state.

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Copromise

• Three-fifths Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

The ______________ resulted in the capturing of enslaved person as well as freedmen.

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Missouri Compromise

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Dred Scott Case

Fighting breaks out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Three-fifths Compromise

• Nullification Crisis

• Missouri Compromise

Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln wins the Presidential election of 1860, resulting in....

• South Carolina seceding

• Harriet Beecher Stowe writing Uncle Tom's Cabin

• the Fugitive Slave act being passed by Congress

• the Annexation of Texas

Most slaves were located...

• Upper South

• Lower South

• Evenly throughout the South

• Southern textile mills

What did the Fugitive Slave Law do?

• The underground railroad was ended
• Slaves that ran-away would be jailed
• Made it illegal for slaveholders to recapture their slaves
• Made it easier for slaveholders to find and reclaim runaway slaves

What state would be added to the Union as a free state according to the Compromise of 1850

• Oregon
• California
• Michigan
• Iowa

Who proposed the compromise of 1850?

• Henry Clay
• Abraham Lincoln
• Frederick Douglass
• Harriet Beecher Stowe