Road to Civil War Quiz Review

This law said Americans could ^_NOT help runaway slaves.

• Missouri Compromise
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Case

This law said Americans could vote if their state should be free or have slaves.

• Missouri Compromise
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Case

Uncle Tom's Cabin was written shortly after this law was passed.

• Missouri Compromise
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Case

This law sparked three years of violence in the Midwest.

• Missouri Compromise
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Case

This event said Congress could not prohibit (stop) slavery anywhere in the United States.

• Missouri Compromise
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Case

The Compromise of 1850 allowed certain territories to use their political power and VOTE whether or not they would allow slavery in their state. What was this power called?

• Sectionalism

• State's Rights

• Popular Sovereignty

• Secession

Showing loyalty to a certain region or section rather than the whole country is known as:

• States' Rights

• Secede

• Sharecropper

• Sectionalism

an enslaved person who sued for his freedom after having lived in a free state  

• Roger B. Taney
• Dred Scott
• Stephen Douglass
  John Brown
• Stephen Douglas

The result of the Dred Scott decision was that (select all correct answers)

• slaves are property, not citizens

• slaves are free if living in a free state

• slavery can be outlawed in the territories

• slavery can spread anywhere (North or South)

Which act of Congress temporarily ended the slavery debate.

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Popular Sovereignty