Road to Civil War

The Missouri Compromise resulted in...

• a ban on slavery in the new territories.

• the number of slave states and free states staying equal.

• popular sovereignty in Missouri.

• a ban on slavery in Missouri.

The principle of popular sovereignty meant that...

• any new state would be a slave state.

• Congress would decide whether or not to allow slavery in a territory.

• any new state would be a free state.

• voters in a territory would decide whether or not to allow slavery.

The Free Soil Party wanted to...

• end slavery in the South.

• institute popular sovereignty in the territories.

• stop slavery from spreading to new territories. Wanted "Free Soil for Free (white) Men."

• support Abraham Lincoln for president in 1856.

The provisions of The Compromise of 1850 included... (check all that apply)

• California enters the union as a free state

• a strict Fugitive Slave Law

• Congress would be split into the Slave States Caucus and the Free State Caucus

• Outlawed the slave trade in Washington, D.C.

The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850... (Choose ALL that apply)

• Required ALL citizens to help apprehend escaped slaves

• Imposed $1000 fine on those who did not assist

• Allowed escaped slaves to choose to go to Liberia

• Resulted in African Americans (both free and escaped) being rounded up and sent into slavery in the South

• protected escaped slaves from being recaptured

The Kansas-Nebraska Act applied the principle of...

• states’ rights.

• nullification.

• popular sovereignty.

• universal suffrage.

Which of the following was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Border Ruffians elected an anti-slavery government.

• Most people accepted Kansas as a slave state.

• John Brown left Kansas for Nebraska.

• Pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces battled to control Kansas.

Dred Scott was

• a Border Ruffian.

• a slave who sued for his freedom.

• a Republican senator.

• the leader of a slave revolt.

In the Dred Scott decision of 1857, Chief Justice Roger Taney wrote...(choose ALL that apply)

• Scott had no right to file a lawsuit because he was a slave and, therefore, not a citizen

• African Americans were not, and could never be, citizens of the U.S.

• Slavery was wrong and should be ended ASAP

• The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional because Congress had no right to regulate slavery

John Brown attacked the arsenal at Harpers Ferry because he wanted to...

• force the South to secede.

• keep slavery out of Kansas.

• start an armed slave revolt.

• prevent Lincoln’s election.