Events That Led to the Civil War

This event allowed Missouri to be a slave state and Maine to be a free state.

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

This Act required people of the North to return slaves to the South.

• The Missouri Compromise of 1820

• New Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• Nat Turner Act

True or False: In the Dred Scott Case, the Supreme Court ruled that no black man could be considered a citizen of the United States.

• True

• False

This Act proposed admitting Kansas and Nebraska as states, giving them popular sovereignty.

• Nebraska Kansas Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Nebraska Ohio Act

Which DID NOT happen because of the election of 1860?

• President Lincoln sent aid to Union forts in the South.

• South Carolina and other states formed their own government.

• Southerners became fearful that their way of living would change.

• President Lincoln decided all states should allow slavery.

Which Southern state seceded first?

• Florida

• Georgia

• South Carolina

• Alabama

What happened in John's Rebellion?

• White slave owners rebelled against the slaves.

• He organized a raid of federal arsenal in Harper's Ferry to arm slaves and help them rebel.

• Stricter slave laws were enforced.

• Slaves were told they could be free.

Which of the following placed stricter punishment for people who interfered with the capture of slave states?

• New Fugitive Slave Act

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Dred Scott Case

• John Brown's Rebellion

Which of the following occurred because of the Election of 1860?

• Lincoln suggested not to abolish slavery in states where it already existed.

• Southerners became discouraged and felt their way of life was going to change.

• Southern States began to secede and form their own government.

• All of the above.

True or False: The Northern states felt that slavery was immoral, or wrong.

• True

• False