Unit 5 Review (Road to the Civil War)

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

Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by:

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Dred Scott

• John Brown

After Lincoln was elected in 1860:

• Southern states were happy

• Northern states hated him

• He began to establish more slave states

• Southern states began to secede

Click ALL that apply. What answers are correct regarding Dred Scott vs. Sandford case?

• Dred Scott was property and lawsuit is invalid

• Dred Scott was freed

• Legally you couldn't stop the spread of slavery in the U.S.

• The northern states called the decision wicked and unfair

Hoped to start a slave uprising by raiding the federal arsenal in Virginia.

• Frederick Douglass

• Nat Turner

• John Brown

• Robert E. Lee

Who created the Kansas-Nebraska Act hoping to form a Transcontinental Railroad?

• Henry Clay

• Franklin Pierce

• Stephen Douglas

• John Brown

Led by groups that wanted to outlaw slavery throughout the U.S. Proslavery Southerners were forced to either leave the state or keep silent. Publications of antislavery literature like The Liberator and Uncle Tom’s Cabin fueled the group’s objective.

• Abolitionist Movement

• Denmark Vesey Plot

• Dred Scott Decision

• Election of 1860

Allowed California to enter the Union as a free state, outlawed the slave trade in Washington D.C., gave popular sovereignty in New Mexico & Utah, & created a new tougher Fugitive Slave Law.

• Missiouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

admitted one slave state and one free state to the Union; prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36 30’ latitude line; the North was concerned with the expansion of slavery and the South learned the importance of maintaining a balance of free and slave state Senators.

• Compromise of 1850

• Nullification Crisis of 1832

• Abolitionist Movement

• Missouri Compromise

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 pass measures limiting the expansion of slavery into the territories.

• John Brown decision

• Denmark Vesey decision

• Abe Lincoln decision

• Dred Scott decision