Road to the Civil War

What word means to withdraw or leave the Union?

• nullify

• secede

• ratify

• levy

Which event is this? Allowed California to enter the Union as a free state, outlawed the slave trade in Washington D.C., & created a new tougher Fugitive Slave Law.

• Missiouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Who am I? I led a group that killed pro-slavery supporters in Kansas during "Bleeding Kansas." I led my men to an arsenal in Virginia with plans of starting a slave rebellion. I was captured and executed.

• Denmark Vesey

• John Brown

• Nat Turner

• Abe Lincoln

Which event is this? There were four candidates; Lincoln campaigned on a platform of ‘free soil’ & won the electoral votes in the North; as a result, South Carolina seceded from the union.

• Compromise of 1850

• Nullification Crisis

• Bleeding Kansas

• Election of 1860

Dred Scott was famous for ___________.

• being a famous runaway slave

• suing for his freedom

• being in the military

• being a famous doctor

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

Which of the following actions was NOT part of the Compromise of 1850?

• California would become a free state.

• Congress would issue a stronger Fugitive Slave law

• The Slave trade is banned (ended) in Washington D.C.

• New Mexico would become a slave state

Which event is this? Supreme Court case that ruled African Americans were not citizens of the U.S. and slaves were considered property. The court also ruled that Congress could not limit the expansion of slavery into the territories.

• John Brown case

• Denmark Vesey case

• Abe Lincoln case

• Dred Scott case

Before the Civil War, The South was:

• Pro-Slavery

• Anti-Slavery

• More industrial than the North

• More populated than North

Who won the Election of 1860?

• Abraham Lincoln-Republican

• Stephen Douglas-Northern Democrat

• John Breckenridge-Southern Democrat

• John Bell-Constitutional Union