Causes of the Civil War

The Compromise of 1850 provided for all of the following EXCEPT:

• Enforcement of the Wilmot Proviso

• California admitted as a free state

• A tougher fugitive slave law

• No restrictions on slavery in New Mexico

The Harriet Beacher Stowe novel presented a vivid picture of slavery in the South:

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• The Underground Railroad

• The Liberator

• The Emancipator

1857 Supreme Court decision that rule slaves were not citizens and had no right to sue in court.

• Marbury v. Madison

• Tyson v. Lewis

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• McCulloh v. Maryland

Ordered all citizens of the U.S. to assist in the return of enslaved people who had escaped from their masters:

• Townsend Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Freedman's Act

What was NOT a condition of the Missouri Compromise?

• Maine would enter the Union as a Free State

• Missouri would enter the Union as a Free State

• The Missouri Compromise Line banned slavery in future states in unorganized territory.

• Banned slaver throughout the entire U.S.

Abolitionists spread their anti-slavery beliefs in the following ways:

• Writings

• Speeches

• Helping slaves escape

• All of the above

Which idea state that the power to decide slavery rested with the people?

• Socialism

• Salutary Neglet

• Abolitionism

• Popular Sovereignty

How did Kansas becoming a state affect the rest of the United States?

• Kansas became a place of violence because of slavery

• Kansas became a slave state & Nebraska became a free state

• Slave escaped to Kansas because they could not be captured there.

• Nebraska became a slave state & Kansas became a free state.

Border Ruffians were people from Kansas who came to vote in Missouri elections on the issue of slavery

• True

• False

John Brown was highly supportive of the Abolitionist movement

• True

• False