Growing Tensions Before Civil War

What law compelled the North to return runaway slaves back to the South?

• Fugitive Dog Acts
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Abolition Act of 1850
• I refuse to answer this question based on the fact I have not studied!

Pushed the Kansas-Nebraska Act through Congress.

• John Brown
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Stephen Douglas
• Roger B Taney

Antislavery settler from Connecticut who led attacks on proslavery settlers in Kansas.

• John Brown

• Douglas Brown

• Stephen Douglas

• Roger B Taney

These events established Lincoln as a national figure and solidified his anti-slavery stance

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• Dred Scott vs Sanford

• John Brown Raid

• Tariff of 1828

This case went to the U.S. Supreme Court and said laws limiting slavery were unconstitutional

• Dred Scott vs Sanford

• Tariff of 1832

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

This event began as a disagreement over whether or not slavery should be allowed in Kansas

• "Bleeding Kansas"

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Dred Scott

• John Brown Raid

This man raided the town of Harper's Ferry in 1859 in an attempt to free slaves.

• John Brown

• Nat Turner

• Dred Scott

• Abraham Lincoln

The idea that people vote directly on an issue is

• ridiculous

• secession rights

• popular sovereignty

• the Missouri Compromise

Why was the Free-Soil Party formed?

• To make sure farmers could get free land

• So that territory gained in the Mexican-American War be free from slavery

• To keep slavery out of the Northern States

• So that the Louisiana Territory remain free from slavery

The Dred Scott decision had a major impact on life in the United States because it-

•  Reaffirmed the President's right to serve more than two terms
• Reopened the issue of slavery in the territories
• Limited the power of the Supreme Court to rule on cases of race
• Supported Congress' right to forbid slavery in the territories