Civil War Quiz Prep

Compromise made over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South could have slavery.

• Compromise of 1850

• Mississippi Compromise

• Missouri Compromise

• Wilmot Proviso

Violent slave revolt that agitated Southern slave owners' fears of slave rebellion. This took place in Virginia in 1831 and was the inspiration for future revolts.

• Wilmot Proviso

• Nat Turner's Rebellion

• Bleeding Kansas

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates

1846 proposal that outlawed slavery in any territory gained from the War with Mexico. This idea caused further debates and tension but never became a law.

• Wilmot Proviso

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders. This forced Northerners to help catch runaway slaves.

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Wilmot Proviso

• Fugitive Slave Act

The main parts of this agreement were that California entered the union as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Act was strengthened. It also did not regulate slavery in the rest of the land gained from Mexico.

• Compromise of 1850

• Mississippi Compromise

• Missouri Compromise

• Wilmot Proviso

A novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852 which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral. This book was extremely popular in the north and opened northerner's eyes to the horrors of slavery.

• Bleeding Kansas

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• The Abolitionist

• John Brown's Raid

Supreme Court case that decided that slaves were property and had no legal rights.

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Confederacy v. Union

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Kallok v. Vaccarelli

A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory. The dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent.

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates

• Bleeding Kansas

• John Brown's Raid

• Miss Smith's Raid

The residents of an area get to vote to decide issues in their area.

• area control

• democracy

• popular sovereignty

True or False: An abolitionist wants the slavery to continue in the South and transform into occurring in the North.

• TRUE

• FALSE