Civil War 1

What impact did Uncle Tom’s Cabin have on the slavery controversy?

• It provided Northern readers with an account of slavery in the South

• White Southerners viewed it as a fair account on their way of life

• It led to the repeal of the Fugitive slave act

• All of the above

The Missouri compromise of 1820:

• Banned slavery from new territories

• Kept the number of free and slave states equal

• Did not allow slavery in Kansas

• Claimed the north was to rich and powerful

The Compromise of 1850 did all of the following except:

• Made California a free state

• Made a stronger fugitive slave law

• New Mexico was granted popular sovereignty

• Admitted West Virginia as a slave state

John Brown wanted to start a rebellion with fellow abolitionists with his raid of ___.

• Harper’s Ferry

• Fort Sumter

• Gettysburg

• The Kansas federal armory

What was the result of the Dred Scott decision

• The federal government could not outlaw slavery in a territory

• Dred Scott won his case and became free

• It was ruled that Dred Scott was not a citizen

• Dred Scot was sentenced to death

Harriet Tubman, a fugitive slave, led hundreds of slaves free on the ___.

• Road to Gettysburg

• Underground Railroad

• Fugitive Slave Trail

• Mason-Dixon Line

According to popular sovereignty

• People in the United States would vote on whether or not a state was free or slave

• People who were the most popular in the territory would decide on the slavery issue

• The United States government would decide the slave issue of a state

• People in a territory get to vote on whether their state is a free or slave state

What happened as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• There was a clash between proslavery and antislavery forces in Kansas i.e. Bleeding Kansas

• Kansas became a free state Nebraska a slave state

• Texas was let in a free state

• Slave trade was abolished in Washington D.C.

The first southern state to secede from the union was:

• North Carolina

• Virginia

• Maryland

• South Carolina

At the beginning of the war, what was Lincoln’s goal?

• To prevent the spread of slavery

• To abolish slavery

• To preserve the union

• To get revenge on the Southerners