Pre-Civil War Test Review

This law was strengthened by the Compromise of 1850. It required all citizens to help in capturing runaway slaves.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Proclamation Line

• Missouri Compromise

This term was used to describe violence between proslavery and antislavery supporters.

• Bleeding Missouri

• Bleeding Kansas

• Bleeding Nebraska

• Bleeding California

Abraham Lincoln became the 16th president. After he was elected southern states began to secede from the Union.

• Election of 1776

• Election of 1760

• Election of 1860

• Election of 1960

This was a book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It is a story of a slave that led many Americans to oppose the institution of slavery.

• 12 years a slave

• Nat Turner's Autobiography

• Federalist Papers

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

This was a network that helped enslaved people escape to freedom.

• Underground Railroad

• Oregon Trail

• Appalachian Trail

• Transcontinental Railroad

The court ruled that slaves could never sue their owners because they were property, not citizens.

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Brown v. Board of Education

This agreement made both the North and South happy. (1) California was added to the USA as a free state. (2) Slavery was to be decided by voting in Utah and New Mexico. (3) The Fugitive Slave law was made stricter.

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

Who is this?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Frederick Douglass

• John Brown

• Harriet Tubman

Who is this?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Frederick Douglass

• John Brown

• Harriet Tubman

Who is this?

• Abraham Lincoln

• Frederick Douglass

• John Brown

• Harriet Tubman