Unit 7 Path to Civil War Review

After the Mexican-American War, tensions between the North & South over the potential expansion of slavery

• grew worse

• caused no conflict

• were non-existent

• created prohibition of slavery throughout the US

Which is not a term in the Compromise of 1850?

• The immediate abolition of slavery in Washington, D.C.

• The adoption of popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico

• The adoption of a stricter fugitive slave law

• The admission of California as a free state

Which book was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe?

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Twelve Years a Slave

• The Half Has Never Been Told

• Up from Slavery

Who was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad and was known as "Black Moses"?

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Lucretia Mott

• Angelina Grimke

Which radical abolitionist was responsible for the attacks at Pottawatomie Creek and Harper’s Ferry in the hopes of starting a revolt to end slavery in the US?

• John Brown

• Stephen Douglas

• Robert E. Lee

• William Lloyd Garrison

Which political party is created in opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the expansion of slavery?

• Free Soil

• Northern Democrats

• Republican

• Southern Whigs

What concept was proposed to be used in the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Reinstate the Missouri Compromise

• Wilmot Proviso

• Popular sovereignty

• Seccession

In Dred Scott v. Sandford the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of the __________?

• slave

• slaveholder

What was the main topic of debate in the 1858 Illinois Senate Race between Douglass and Lincoln?

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Slavery in the territories

• Secession

What event caused the first seven southern states to secede from the Union?

• the Dred Scott decision

• the brutal beating of Charles Sumner in the Senate

• the federal government’s refusal to punish John Brown

• the election of Republican Abraham Lincoln as President