Practice Pre-Test -Causes of the Civil War

People who believed that slavery was wrong and tried to stop it (a)  

• abolitionists 
• habeas corpus
• state's rights
• secede

Someone running away from their owner (slave) or from the law

• fugitive 
• slave state
• free state
• state's rights

Cultural and political differences that divided the country 

• sectionalism
• secede
• slave state
• free state

States that DID NOT allow slavery 

• free states
• slave states
• sectionalism
• state's rights

States that DID allow slavery and practice it. 

• slave states
• free states
• sectionalism
• state's rights

States have individual rights outside of the ones in the federal government

• state's rights
• sectionalism
• free state
• slave state

To leave, or quit, a group or union

• secede
• state's rights
• sectionalism
• habeas corpus

Act made it a federal law that all runaway slaves MUST be returned to their owners in the south. 

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Decision
• Compromise of 1850

California was admitted into the Union, Utah and New Mexico were able to choose (free or slave state) and settled border disputes from war with Mexico. 

• Compromise of 1850
• Missouri Compromise 1820
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Decision 

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a book to show the cruelties of slavery. What was it called?

• Uncle Bob's Stories
• Uncle Tom's Hotel
• Uncle Joe's Best Recipes
• Uncle Tom's Cabin