Causes of the Civil War

This upset the balance between slave and free states and enacted the Fugitive Slave Law/Act.

• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas Nebraska Act
• Compromise of 1850
• Dred Scot Decision

Which is a benefit for the NORTH, thanks to the Compromise of 1850?

• California was admitted to the Union

• Slave owners in Washington D.C. were able to keep their slaves.

• The Fugitive Slave Law was enacted.

• Texas eventually became a slave state.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Doughlas, William Lloyd Garrison are examples of

• Supreme Court Justices

• abolitionists

• governors in slave states

• the other 3 presidential candidates in the election of 1860

Different geographical areas of the U.S. have different beliefs and values, which can cause tension.

• Sectionalism

• Localism

• Partiality

• Provincialism

Which economy relied heavily on agriculture and slavery

• North

• South

• West

Which law allowed slave holders to gain access to the north to retrieve their runaway slaves

• Fugitive Immigrant Law

• Runaway Slave Clause

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Property Abandonment Clause

Kansas-Nebraska Act gave the people of these territories the right to vote on slavery. What piece of legislation did it overturn?

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

• Henry Clay Treaty

• Lincoln Agreement

The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to people flooding into these territories from the north and south to vote on slavery. This led to what event?

• Bleeding Kansas

• Red Kansas

• Civil War I

• Missouri Compromise Conflict

Escaped slave that sued for his freedom

• Harriett Tubman

• Frederick Douglas

• Sojourner Truth

• Dred Scott

Which of the following best describes John Brown?

• radical abolitionist who used violence to try to end slavery

• a peaceful abolitionists who hated violence

• a pro-slavery Senator

• a strong supporter of slavery who used violence to spread slavery