Civil War Causes Check-In

What was the Fugitive Slave Law?

• A law that made it illegal for slaves to run away
• A law that made it legal for slaves to run away if they could make it to Kansas
• A law that required Northerners to return escaped slaves to their enslavers
• A law that required all slave owners to help find escaped slaves

What started the event called Bleeding Kansas?

• Thousands of Southerners moved to Kansas and voted to make it a slave state, so anti-slavery settlers attacked them
• There were many people who got injured on their way to Kansas, so they called it "Bleeding Kansas"
• Congress declared that Kansas would be a free state in the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which angered pro-slavery settlers
• The citizens of Kansas were upset about the Missouri Compromise and began to fight about it

Who was Dred Scott?

• A slave owner who believed he should have the right to keep people in slavery
• An enslaved man who claimed that he should be set free because he had lived in free states
• A judge who decided that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States
• An abolitionist who argued that slavery was morally wrong and should be illegal

In the Election of 1860, which candidate was mainly concerned with keeping the Union together and following the Constitution?

• Stephen A. Douglas
• Abraham Lincoln
• John C. Breckinridge
• John Bell

In the Election of 1860, which candidate believed that states should have the right to choose whether they wanted slavery or not?

• Stephen A. Douglas
• Abraham Lincoln
• John C. Breckinridge
• John Bell

In the Election of 1860, which candidate believed that a railroad would only be helpful if it also benefited the South?

• Stephen A. Douglas
• Abraham Lincoln
• John C. Breckinridge
• John Bell

In the Election of 1860, which candidate believed that slavery should remain where it already existed, but stay out of Western territories?

• Stephen A. Douglas
• Abraham Lincoln
• John C. Breckinridge
• John Bell

Who won the Election of 1860?

• Stephen A. Douglas
• Abraham Lincoln
• John C. Breckinridge
• John Bell

Who received the least electoral votes in the election?

• Stephen A. Douglas
• Abraham Lincoln
• John C. Breckenridge
• John Bell

Why was it surprising that Lincoln became president after the election?

• He received less than 40% of the country's votes.
• People thought he wasn't good enough at making speeches to be President
• He wasn't on the ballot in 9 of the Southern states.
• A and C