Unit #8: The Civil War

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 allowed ____ to enter the Union as a slave state if _____ would be admitted as a free state.

• Missouri, Maine

• Kansas, Nebraska

• Texas, Florida

The Compromise of 1850 was made after which state applied for statehood?

• Texas

• California

• Wyoming

• Arizona

What was the deal made in the Compromise of 1850?

• The North gets Arizona & Texas as a free state The South gets California as a slave state and the invention of "slavecatchers"

• The North gets Maine as a a free state The South gets Missouri as a slave state

• The North gets CA as a free state and the slave trade is banned in DC The South gets Arizona & New Mexico as popular sovereignty states and stricter fugitive slave law

Which book written in 1852 revealed the horrors of slavery for the North and angered the slave-owning South?

• 12 Years a Slave

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

Who was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Frederick Douglas

• Harriet Tubman

Instead of being a free state, the territories will have to hold a vote to determine its slave/free state status - this concept is known as...

• Sectionalism

• Secession

• Popular Sovereignty

• Irreconcilable

When thousands of pro and anti slavery supporters flock to Kansas to help sway the election and mass violence erupts - this is known as what nickname?

• Bleeding Kansas

• Broken Kansas

• Busted Kansas

• Brutal Kansas

________ sued for his freedom, stating that his status as an enslaved person should have been dissolved (ended) the moment he entered free territory

• John Brown

• John C. Calhoun

• Dred Scott

• Frederick Douglass

What was the outcome of the Dred Scott case that went to the Supreme Court?

• African-Americans, no matter whether free or enslaved could never be citizens. Therefore, they could not sue in court

• African Americans could become citizens upon earning their freedom and would then be entitled to the same rights as white citizens

Radical abolitionist ________ planned to seize the federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia with the goal of arming those who have escaped slavery before leading a revolt to end slavery once and for all.

• John Brown

• Abraham Lincoln

• Nat Turner

• Stephan Douglass