The Road to Civil War

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

Which was not a part of the Compromise of 1850?

• California would become a free state

• Strong Fugitive Slave law

• Slave trade banned in D.C.

• New Mexico become a free state

What territory saw a Civil War break out over the issue of free/slave state?

• Missouri

• Kansas

• California

• Nebraska

Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by:

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Dred Scott

• John Brown

Created the Kansas-Nebraska Act hoping to form a Transcontinental Railroad?

• Henry Clay

• Franklin Pierce

• Stephen Douglas

• John Brown

What helped inspire Harriet Beecher Stowe to write Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• Reading about debates over the Compromise of 1850

• Listening to stories of fugitive slaves she met in Ohio

• Witnessing a slaveholder beat a slave to death

• Meeting the abolitionist writer Louisa McCord

Allowed California to enter the Union as a free state, outlawed the slave trade in Washington D.C., gave popular sovereignty in New Mexico & Utah, & created a new tougher Fugitive Slave Law.

• Missiouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Admitted one slave state and one free state to the Union; prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of the 36 30’ latitude line; the North was concerned with the expansion of slavery and the South learned the importance of maintaining a balance of free and slave state Senators.

• Compromise of 1850

• Nullification Crisis of 1832

• Abolitionist Movement

• Missouri Compromise

Which aspect of the Fugitive Slave Act horrified the Northerners?

• The law permitted fugutitives to testify on their own behalf

• People who helped runaway often served as defense witnesses

• Commissioners (judges) benefitted from returning slaves to slaveholders

• Some abolitionists were using violence to get across a message of freedom

What did the Fugitive Slave Law do?

• The underground railroad was ended
• Slaves that ran-away would be jailed
• Made it illegal for slaveholders to recapture their slaves
• Made it easier for slaveholders to find and reclaim runaway slaves