Civil War causes and events in GA, SSH85

This act allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state, and Maine as a free state. It drew a boundary line to separate northern free states and southern slave states.

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Missouri Compromise 1820

This legislation brought California in as a free state, and also created Utah and New Mexico. The Fugitive Slave Act was included in this legislation, as well:

• Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scott Decision

• Fugitive Slave Law

In the Fugitive Slave Act, it was ILLEGAL for a northerner to let a runaway slave go free

• True 
• False

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

Who won the Election of 1860?

• Ulysses S Grant
• Jefferson Davis
• Abraham Lincoln
• Uncle Tom

After Lincoln was elected:

• Southern states were happy
• Northern states hated him
• He began to establish more slave states
• Southern states began to secede

A person who wanted to end slavery

• Secession
• Abolitionist
• Fugitive
• Southerner

To break away from, or withdraw from something

• Abolish
• Secede
• Repeal
• Compromise

Before the Civil War, the North was:

• Weak
• Anti-Slavery
• Pro-Slavery
• The Confederates

Before the Civil War, The South was:

• Pro-Slavery
• Anti-Slavery
• The Union
• More populated than North