Events Leading to War Form A

This act established Kansas and Nebraska as territories and allowed residents to decide on whether or not to allow slavery in the newly established territories

• Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854

• Wilmot Proviso

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

The Compromise of 1850 included five different laws. Which law was beneficial to the North as part of this compromise?

• South would have to pay the North for any captured slaves

• South promised to reduce the number of slaves

• Slavery was outlawed in the Louisiana territory

• California was admitted as a free state

What arsenal did John Brown attack in 1859?

• Kansas

• Harper's Ferry

• Pottawatomie Massacre

The idea that people should be allowed to vote whether or not to have slavery in a territory is known as.....

• Compromise

• Popular vote

• Popular sovereignty

The book that was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe which focused on the atrocities of slavery is called.....

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• The Atrocities of Slavery

• The Underground Railroad

• The Southern Overseer

When the Civil War began, what was Abraham Lincoln's main goal?

• to free the slaves

• to punish the South

• to preserve the Union

• to bring an end to the war

Southerners' belief that states should have higher authority than the federal government was called:

• confederate rights
• states rights
• national rights

Which of the following events was when pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers fought violently?

• Compromise of 1850
• War of 1812
• Kansas-Nebraska Act/Bleeding  Kansas 
• Underground Railroad 

Abolitionists ___________________ slavery and convinced other to organize the Underground Railroad. 

• enjoyed
• wanted 
• opposed 
• started 

Dred Scott was famous for ___________. 

• being sued by someone else
• suing for his freedom
• being in the military
• being a famous doctor