Road to the US Civil War

Tensions rose when Southerners felt threatened by growing Republican Power and violence increased their fears ending in bloodshed in Harper's Ferry Virginia

• Bleeding Kansas

• John Brown's Raid

• Election of 1860

• Fugitive Slave Act

Free and slave states disagreed over slavery being permitted in the West. This led to the formation of ___________________

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Free-Soil Party

• Republican Party

_____________ crossed state lines and illegally voted in an election to ensure a proslave legislature would be in office.

• Anti-slavery forces

• Exodusters

• fugitives

• Border Ruffians

Tensions broke out in the Northern and Southern regions when Harriet Beecher Stowe exposed the evils of Slavery

• John Brown's Raid

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• The Abolitionists Papers

• Underground Railroad

During the 1860 Election, presidential candidate Stephen A. Douglas ran on a platform stating the issue of slavery in the West should be determined by

• State's Rights

• Popular Sovereignty

• Border Ruffians

• Fugitive Slave Act

Claiming ___________________, southerners decided to secede from the Union.

• Popular Sovereignty

• State's Rights

• Free-Soil Party

• Violence in Congress

Who were the two candidates in the Election of 1860? Last name only and capitalize the first letter in their name

Which general surrendered at the Appomatox Court House ending the Civil War in the United States?

• Robert E. Lee

• Ulysses S. Grant

• George Custer

• George McClellan

What was Abraham Lincoln's platform when it came to slavery in the United States?

What was Stephen A. Douglas' platform on slavery in the United States?