Road to Civil War/Civil War

In what way did the Compromise of 1850 appease the South?

• It created new taxes for railroad construction.
• It provided an end to the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
• It included a law requiring the return of escaped slaves
• It added California as a slave state

What caused Southern States to secede from the Union?

• The Election of Lincoln in 1860
• The Dred Scott Decision
• Harper's Ferry
• Bleeding Kansas

In the Dred Scott decision, it was decided that:

• African Americans can not be citizens
• There cannot be slaves in free states
• Slavery is illegal
• Maine would be free, Missouri would be slave state

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Abraham Lincoln was a popular person in the South and was elected President with their votes.  

• True
• False

Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois proposed that the issue of slavery in the territories should be settled by

• A vote of Congress.
• Popular Sovereignty.
• The Supreme Court.
• The Missouri Compromise.

Did the Emancipation Proclamation free all of the slaves in America?

• Yes

• No

Control of this waterway was an important part of the North's strategy to win the war

• Ohio River

• Tennessee River

• Missouri River

• Mississippi River

According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, what would decide whether the territories became a free or a slave state?

• popular sovereignty

• the 36'30" parallel

• one would be a slave state, the other a free state

• Rock, Paper, Scissors

California would enter as a free state and runaway slaves could be recaptured under the...

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

The purpose of John Brown's raid was to....

• steal supplies and sell them for money
• get his name in the local newspapers
• start a slave revolt
• get the 13th amendment passed