Events Leading to Civil War

He was the “Moses” of the American settlement of Mexico:

• Sam Houston

• John C. Freemont

• Stephen Austin

• Stephen A. Douglas

The author who wrote a book that caused many Northerners to turn against slavery and helped lead to the Civil War:

• Henry David Thoreau

• Fredrick Douglas

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Edgar Allen Poe

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• said Kanses and Nebraska could vote to be a free or slave state

• caused rival governments to be set up in Kansas

• led to a mini-civil war in Kansas

• created rival governments and led to a mini-civil war there

The election of 1860 was won by:

• Stephen A. Douglas

• John C. Freemont

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court said:

• blacks could not be citizens

• slavery was illegal

• there could be no slaves in the free territories

• Missouri could be a slave state

This slave was taken North but told he could not be free even in a free state:

• Harriet Tubman

• Fredrick Douglass

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Dred Scott

Abolitionist who led the raid at Harpers Ferry in Virginia was:

• John Brown

• Preston Brooks

• Nat Turner

• David Atchinson

What was the last straw that caused the South to leave the Union?

• the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• the raid on Harpers Ferry

• Illinois Senate race of 1858

• Lincoln's election to President

This was the novel that showed the North how evil slavery was and helped the abolitionist movement:

• Of Mice and Men

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• My LIfe as a Slave

• Waldon's Pond

The Fugitive Slave Acts;

• Northern officials were required to provide free blacks papers to identify them

• It allowed slave catchers to enter Northern territory to search for slaves

• Forced Northerners to help catch escaped slaves and fine officials if they didn’t help

• Disbanded communities that had been set up to protect escaped slaves