DL- Road to Civil War Quiz

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

Before the Civil War, The South was:

• Pro-Slavery

• Anti-Slavery

• More industrial than the North

• More populated than North

In the Fugitive Slave Act, it was ILLEGAL for a northerner to let a runaway slave go free

• True

• False

After Lincoln was elected:

• Southern states were happy

• Northern states hated him

• He began to establish more slave states

• Southern states began to secede

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

Supreme Court case that ruled African Americans were not citizens of the U.S. and slaves were considered property. The court also ruled that Congress could not pass measures limiting the expansion of slavery into the territories.

• John Brown decision

• Denmark Vesey decision

• Abe Lincoln decision

• Dred Scott decision

to withdraw or leave the Union

• nullify

• secede

• ratify

• levy

depended on trade, industry, and immigrant labor

• North

• East

• South

• West