Civil War

Before 1854, slavery was banned from remaining Louisiana Purchase territory under the terms of the...

• Compromise of 1850

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• 1820 Missouri Compromise

• Wilmot Proviso

Democrat Stephen A. Douglas sponsored what became known as the Kansas- Nebraska Act because...

• He opposed the expansion of slavery into western territories

• He was a southerner

• He was an abolitionist

• He supported construction of a transcontinental railroad

Many northerners opposed the passage of Douglas’ proposal because...

• It repealed the time-honored Missouri Compromise

• It provided for a transcontinental railroad along a southern route

• It included the admission of two new slave states to the Union

• Most were abolitionists during the 1850s

Passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act resulted in...

• Douglas’ defeat in his re-election bid

• The collapse of the already weakened Whig Party

• he disappearance of the Democratic Party

• The secession of several southern states

The new Republican Party...

• Drew support from many southerners

• Was dedicated to a ban on the extension of slavery

• Supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Enjoyed victory in the presidential election of 1856

A policy stating that voters in a territory-not Congress-should decide whether or not to allow slavery there.

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Popular Sovereignty

• Secede

• Compromise of 1850

The political agreement that allowed California to be admitted as a free state by allowing popular sovereignty in the territories and enacting a stricter fugitive slave law.

• Compromise of 1820

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Secede

• Compromise of 1850

A law that required all citizens to aid in apprehending runaway slaves.

• Free Soil Party

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Dred Scott vs. Sanford Decision

Who published Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852 condemning the horrors of slavery?

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Sojourner Truth

• Martin Delany

This nullified the Missouri Compromise by allowing slavery to spread to areas that had been free for more than 30 years.

• Bleeding Kansas

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Missouri Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act