Road to the Civil War

This is when people in each territory would vote directly on the issue, rather than have their elected representative decide for them.

• republicanism
• popular sovereignty
• nationalism
• free-range

The Compromise of 1850 admitted what state as a free state?

• Nevada
• Kansas
• Missouri
• California

This law left it to the white citizens of the territory to decide whether that territory would be a free or slave territory.

• Missouri Compromise
• Wilmot Proviso
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Emancipation Proclomation

What part of the Compromise of 1850 upset the North the most?

• Allowing California in as a free state
• Ending the slave trade in Washington DC
• using popular sovereignty to decide Utah and New Mexico
• the stricter Fugitive Slave Act

What state would be added to the Union as a free state according to the Compromise of 1850?

• Oregon
• California
• Michigan
• Iowa

How did the Kansas- Nebraska Act nullify the Missouri Compromise?

• It changed the borders of Missouri
• It required that all Missouri be free.
• It allowed the possibility of slavery in Kansas and Nebraska Territories 

• It established new interstate trade rules.

The Missouri Compromise Line determined the status of slavery in future states.  North of the line slavery was ___________ or banned, South of the line slavery was _________.

• permitted, prohibited
• prohibited, permitted or allowed
• sometimes prohibited, never allowed
• cheap, expensive

Which is not part of the Missouri Compromise?

• Maine enters the Union as a slave state
• Territory was divided between free and slave by a line running at 36°30' latitude.
• Missouri entered the Union as a state with slavery
• Maine became a new state to keep balance with the addition of Missouri

Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by:

• Harriet Tubman
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Dred Scott
• John Brown

Some slaves were able to escape to freedom in the North thanks to the ______________________________.

• Dred Scott Decision
• The Compromise of 1850
• Bleeding Kansas
• Underground Railroad