Road to Civil War thru Emancipation

According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, what would decide whether the territories became free or slave?

• popular sovereignty

• Missouri Compromise

• one would be a slave state, the other a free state

• Rock, Paper, Scissors

What territory saw a Civil War break out over the issue of free/slave state?

• Missouri

• Kansas

• California

• Nebraska

The Election of 1860 was won by the...

• Republican Party

• Northern Democratic Party

• Southern Democratic Party

• Constitutional Union Party

After Lincoln was elected:

• Southern states were happy

• Northern states hated him

• He began to establish more slave states

• Southern states began to secede

Click ALL that apply. What answers are correct regarding Dred Scott vs. Sandford case?

• Dred Scott was property and lawsuit is invalid

• Dred Scott was freed

• Legally you couldn't stop the spread of slavery in the U.S.

• The northern states called the decision wicked and unfair

Hoped to start a slave uprising by raiding the federal arsenal in Virginia.

• Frederick Douglass

• Nat Turner

• John Brown

• Robert E. Lee

Click ALL that apply. These events angered the southern states.

• Dred Scott Decision

• Strong Fugitive Slave Act

• Raid on Harper's Ferry

• Lincoln being elected President

Which of the following slave states didn't leave the Union?

• Tennessee

• Kentucky

• Louisiana

• Virginia

1.  What law, passed in 1820, banned slavery “forever” in territory north of a line at 36°30’ North latitude?

• Nebraska Kansas Act
• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Dred Scott Case

What was the belief that each state was sovereign, and the national government did not have the power to tell states what to do?

• Abolition
• Sectionalism
• Secession
• State's Rights