Causes of the Civil War

What compromise established the 36' 30" line?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

What compromise allows for popular sovereignty in the area acquired from Mexico?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

What compromise abandons the Missouri Compromise?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

What is popular sovereignty?

• an agreement reached between two sides where both sides have to give something up

• A person who works to end slavery

• A vote where people decide on an issue.

• A person who has gone against or broken the law and is on the loose

What do all of the compromises of the 1800's have in common?

• They are all treaties with foreign countries.

• They deal with deciding if land will be free or slave

• They are battles in the Civil War.

• They all result in violent conflicts.

What pro-slavery event ruled that slaves were property and not citizens?

• Wilmot Proviso

• Free-Soil Party

• Dred Scott Decision

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

What pro-slavery event required citizens to catch runaway slaves?

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Wilmot Proviso

• Free Soil Party

What anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote about the evils of slavery?

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Wilmot Proviso

• Dred Scott Decision

• Free Soil Party

What violent act did John Brown raid an arsenal in an attempt to start a slave rebellion?

• Attack on Fort Sumter

• Pottawatomie Creek Killings

• Raid on Harper's Ferry

A person who wanted to end slavery

• Secession

• Abolitionist

• Fugitive

• Southerner