Toward Civil War

A person who wanted to end slavery

• Jefferson Davis

• An abolitionist

• Kunta Kinte

• The Southern Democrats

The rights and powers held by individual states rather than by the federal government is known as...

• Secession

• States Rights

• Popular Sovereignty

• The Bill of Rights

Choose TWO outcomes of the Dred Scott Court Decision:

• Anyone who helped a runaway slave could be fined or imprisoned.

• Missouri would become a slave state and Maine would be a free state.

• Slaves and their descendants would never become US citizens.

• Slaves did not have the right to file lawsuits in court.

HOW were the Confederate States of America formed?

• They were formed when the southern states seceded from the the United States in 1861.

• They were formed when Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860.

• They were formed when the slave states outnumbered the free states.

• They were formed when the Confederates attacked Ft. Sumter.

The type of government in which the people have the power to make laws is known as popular sovereignty

• True

• False

What is true about the Dred Scott court case?

• Dred Scott was a slave who won his right to freedom.

• Dred Scott was a slave who was taken to free states but remained a slave.

• Dred Scott was put on trial for organizing a slave rebellion.

• Dred Scott was an wealthy, northern abolitionist who sued slave owners for human rights violations.

How did people in the north react to the Fugitive Slave Act?t

• They refused to convict people who were found guilty of breaking this law.

• They overwhelmingly supported this law.

• They used this as a reason to secede from the United States.

• They often turned in runaway slaves to the authorities.

The Fugitive Slave Act and Popular Sovereignty were both issues related to which event?

• Bleeding Kansas

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Compromise of 1850

Jefferson Davis, the democrat, won the election of 1860

• True

• False

When Lincoln became president, what was one of the issues that drove the south to secede?

• They believed that the election was "stolen."

• They worried that Lincoln would outlaw slavery in new territories.

• They didn't support popular sovereignty.

• They were worried that Lincoln would support armed slave revolts in the South.