Civil War Causes Quiz

What is a slave state?

• A state that allows slavery

• a state that does not allow slavery

• a state that uses popular sovereignty to decide if they would have slavery

• Country that is part slave and part free

What is a free state?

• A state that is part free and part slavery

• a state that allows slavery

• a state that does not allow slavery

• a state that is eligible to have slavery

What was the Missouri Compromise?

• Under this plan Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state. It also said slavery couldn't exist above Missouri's southern border

• Admitted California as a free state and allowed for popular sovereignty to decide in the Mexican Cession Territory

• Admitted Kansas as a free state

• Admitted Kansas as a free state and Texas as a Slave State

What are Abolitionists ?

• Americans that did not want slavery to expand from where it was already

• Americans that wanted to expand slavery

• Americans that want to abolish,or end slavery everywhere

• Europeans that were for the spread of slavery

What was the Fugitive Slave Law?

• required fugitive slaves to go to court to fight for their freedom

• provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory

• gave slaves their freedom

What is popular sovereignty?

• the right of the people living in a new territory to decide by vote of their territorial legislature whether or not slavery would be allowed

• the decision for slaves to decide if they were going to be free or not

• the right of the president of the United States to solely decide if a state will be a slave state or free state

What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Legislation that demanded that Kansas become a slave state and Nebraska

• Legislation that allowed the people of the Kansas and Nebraska territories to choose to have slavery in their territory or not.

• Legislation that made the states of Kansas and Nebraska become Slave states

• The act that ended the Civil War

What was Bleeding Kansas?

• The event that started the Civil War

• were more than 200 people died in Kansas Territory after pro slavery and antislavery bands of people fought over the territory

• this event broke out after Lincoln was elected president, in the Kansas territory, over the issue of slavery

Who was John Brown?

• an American abolitionist who advocated the use of armed insurrection to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States.

• Governor of the new Kansas territory, who fought to restore order during Bleeding Kansas

• Pro-slavery supporter who led rallies in Kansas during the Bleeding Kansas crisis

What was the Compromise of 1850?

• Five bills passed, one was California was added as a free state, giving a majority of free states in the U.S Senate

• Missouri was added as a free state

• Maine was added to the union as a slave state

• The slave trade was made legal in Washington D.C.