Civil War

Who threatened to leave the Union after President Lincoln was elected?

• Southern States

• Northern States

• Hawaii

• Great Britain

The first state to secede from the Union was

• Canada

• North Carolina

• Arkansas

• South Carolina

an enslaved person who sued for his freedom after having lived in a free state  

• Roger B. Taney
• Dred Scott
• Stephen Douglass
  John Brown
• Stephen Douglas

Citizens could be jailed or fined for helping runaway slaves because of the

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Democrat Party
• Election of 1852

The result of the Dred Scott decision was that (select all correct answers)

• slaves are property, not citizens

• slaves are free if living in a free state

• slavery can be outlawed in the territories

• slavery can spread anywhere (North or South)

Which act of Congress temporarily ended the slavery debate.

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Popular Sovereignty

The Compromise of 1850 allowed certain territories to use___________________________ to determine whether the territory would be free or slave.  This decision applied to much of the land gained from the the U.S. Mexican War.

• Three Fifths Compromise
• Raiding
• Popular sovereignty 
• Secession

What was the Compromise of 1850? Select all that apply.

• California would enter the Union as a free state.

• Texas would be allowed to enter the Union as a slave state.

• The Fugitive Slave Law was passed

• The slave trade would end in the nation’s capital.

What was the key issue that was debated each time a new state was admitted to the Union before the Civil War?

• the expansion of slavery
• the building of railroads 
• the provision of women's suffrage
• support for the homesteading 

What was the Underground Railroad?

• A train that took people to freedom.

• A tunnel where people could buy slaves.

• A group of people who helped slaves escape to freedom.

• A home where Harriet Tubman grew up.