Causes of the Civil War Study Guide

What does secede mean?  

• to separate

• to stay

• to fight

• to win

In the Compromise of 1850, which state entered the United States as a free state?

• Mississippi

• California

• Indiana

• Texas

This said that all African Americans were NOT citizens.

• The Compromise of 1850.

• The Fugitive Slave Act.

• The Dred Scott Decision.

• The Missouri Compromise.

The Fugitive Slave Act was added to this compromise to please Southern states

• Kansas-Nebraska ActKansas-Nebraska Act

• Georgia Platform

• Georgia Platform

• Compromise of 1850

Under this compromise, if a slave state was added to the Union, a free state or territory must also be added:

• Compromise of 1850

• Georgia Platform

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

Abolitionists wanted to

• Get rid of slavery.

• Give women the right to vote.

• Feed the hungry.

• Limit slavery to large plantations.

Which compromise allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine to enter the Union? As a free state?

• 1850 compromise

• the U.S

• Kansas

• the Missouri Compromise

What is the Fugitive Slave Law?

• Where slaves got free from slave owners and were a compromise with the slaveholders and abolitionists

• if you saw an slave you were to run andd not tell

• Where if you saw a slave you had the choice to tell the owner

• If you saw a slave you had to report it or receive punishment

 

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The Compromise of 1850 banned Slave Trade in this city.

• Washington D.C.

• Boston

• Atlanta

• New York City

Dred Scott was famous for ___________. 

• being sued by someone else

• suing for his freedom

• being a famous doctor

• being in the military