Trigger Events of the Civil War

In addition to letting in Missouri as a slave state, the Missouri Compromise:

• let in Maine as a free state

• let in California as a free state

• drew a line between free and slave territory

• made helping runaway slaves illegal

This was a slave revolt that caused the death of 60 white people in Virginia

• John Brown's Raid

• Pottawatomie Massacre

• Nat Turner's Rebellion

• Stono Rebellion

Slave states threatened to leave the Union if this proposal became law:

• Missouri Compromise

• Wilmot Proviso

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

The popular book that angered the South and taught the North about slavery was called:

In the Dred Scott case, the Supreme Court decided:

• Slavery was illegal in all territories

• No one in a free state could be held as a slave

• All residents born in the US were citizens, including slaves

• Slaves had no rights as citizens

The Missouri Compromise

• added Missouri as a slave state

• added Maine as a free state

• said that slavery would be banned in land north of the 36*30 latitude line

• said that slavery would be allowed in land north of the 36*30 line

Which was NOT a result of Nat Turner's rebellion?

• Lawmakers cut back on the minimal rights that slaves and free Black people had

• 55 slaves were executed, including Nat Turner

• over 200 more slaves were lynched by a mob in response

• slavery was outlawed

Although it was not passed, what would the Wilmot Proviso had done if it had passed?

• banned slavery everywhere

• made slavery legal everywhere

• banned slavery in the territories acquired from the Mexican-American war

• made California a slave state

Who is the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• William Shakespeare

• John Donne

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Robert Burns

Tom's Cabin helped divide the North and South on slavery, setting the stage for the Civil War

• True

• False