Road to the Civil War

What state would be added to the Union as a free state according to the Compromise of 1850

• Oregon
• California
• Michigan
• Iowa

In what way did the Compromise of 1850 appease the South?

• It created new taxes for railroad construction.
• It provided an end to the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
• It included a law requiring the return of escaped slaves
• It added California as a slave state

This was a mini-Civil War fought in the Kansas territory between pro-slavery settlers and anti-slavery settlers 

• Missouri Compromise 
• Summer if 1856
• Bleeding Kansas
• Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas

Why were a lot of people moving to Kansas to vote?

• Popular sovereignty was allowing people to vote if they wanted Kansas to be a free state or a slave state

• They wanted Abraham Lincoln to be elected

• They wanted Charles Robinson to be elected Governor

• They really like voting

What caused Southern States to secede from the Union?

• The Election of Lincoln in 1860
• The Dred Scott Decision
• Harper's Ferry
• Bleeding Kansas

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

What law repealed (cancelled) the Missouri Compromise?

• Compromise of 1850

• Wilmot Proviso

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Treaty of Paris 1783

According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, what would decide whether the territories became free or slave?

• popular sovereignty

• Missouri Compromise

• one would be a slave state, the other a free state

• Rock, Paper, Scissors

The Election of 1860 was won by the...

• Republican Party

• Northern Democratic Party

• Southern Democratic Party

• Constitutional Union Party

What forced undecided northerners to pick a side in the slavery debate?

• Bleeding Kansas

• The Raid at Harpers' Ferry

• Lincoln's Election

• Fugitive Slave Act