Pre-Civil War Quiz Review

Attempted to compromise by passing the Fugitive Slave Act , banning slave trade in DC, admitting California as a free state, splitting up the Texas territory, and allowing Popular Sovereignty.

• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Compromise of 1850
• secession

Supreme Court case which ruled that slaves are not citizens but property. It fueled abolitionist movement, and hailed as victory for the South.

• Dred Scott Case
• John Brown's Raid
• Popular Sovereignty
• secession

(1850) a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders.

• Dred Scott Case
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Who won the election of 1860?

• Abraham Lincoln
• Andrew Johnson
• Lyndon b. Johnson
• James Buchanan

Which state was the first to secede from the Union?

• North Carolina
• Virginia
• Texas
• South Carolina

Required northerners to turn over runaway slaves to slave catchers.

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Fugitive Catch Act
• Nebraksa-Kansas Act
• Wilmot Proviso

This is when people in each territory would vote directly on the issue, rather than have their elected representative decide for them.

• republicanism
• popular sovereignty
• nationalism
• free-range

The Compromise of 1850 admitted what state as a free state?

• Nevada
• Kansas
• Missouri
• California

This law left it to the white citizens of the territory to decide whether that territory would be a free or slave territory.

• Missouri Compromise
• Wilmot Proviso
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Emancipation Proclomation

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a free state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Alabama