Causes of the Civil War

What do you call a person who was opposed to slavery and worked toward ending it?

• Fugitive

• Abolitionist

• Secessionist

• Whig

This means that the people get to decide on an issue, including whether or not to allow slavery in their territory

• Abolition

• Secede

• Popular sovereignty

• Populist

To withdraw or leave are synonyms of this word:

• Fugitive

• Secede

• Popular sovereignty

• Compromise

Runaway slaves used the ______ to escape to the North and freedom.

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Underground Railroad

• Escaped Slave Expressway

• The Ohio River

This slave led a rebellion in Virginia that killed at least 55 people

• Gabriel

• Denmark Vesey

• Nat Turner

• John Brown

This law allowed government officials to arrest anyone suspected of being a runaway slave

• Dred Scott case

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Slave codes

• The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

This novel explored the harsh realities of slavery and let readers see what slavery was really like

• La Amistad

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Gettysburg Address

• Slave codes

California would enter the union as a free state and a tough new law dealing with runaway slaves was part of _______?

• Compromise of 1850

• The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• Dred Scott case

• Slave codes

The US Supreme Court decided that this man was still just a slave, even though he had lived in a free territory, setting the stage for slavery to be legal everywhere

• Uncle Tom

• John Brown

• Nat Turner

• Dred Scott

This abolitionist took part in "Bleeding Kansas" and led a raid on Harper's Ferry, VA

• Dred Scott

• Jefferson Davis

• John Brown

• Abraham Lincoln