Ch 14 Towards War

"Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, and Free Men" was the slogan for what party who wanted Western territories to be free not slave.

• Whig Party

• Democratic Party

• Republican Party

• Free -Soil Party

Henry Clay's proposal to admit California as a free state and allow slavery in all other western territories which overturned the 1820 Missouri Compromise ban on slavery northern territories.

• The California Act

• The Fugitive Slave Act

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

A law passed by Congress to fine or imprison anyone who helped a person escape enslavement even while in Northern free states.

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Popular Sovreignty Act

Stephen A. Douglas proposed a new law stating any territory would vote on whether or not they would enter the United States as free or slave state.

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Kansas had two rival governments. Pro-slavery settlers attacked anti-slavery settlers killing five people Kansas territory.

• Uncle Tom's Cabin 

• Boston Massacre

• Bleeding Kansas
• Conflict in Kansas

What new political party arose just before the Civil War which was made up by Antislavery Whigs and Democrats and the Free-Soilers and became known as the the party of the North?

• Republican Party

• Democratic Party

• Independent Party

• Green Party

The Democratic party right before the Civil War was associated with which region of the United States?

• South

• North

• East

• West

What was the Supreme Court ruling in the Dred Scott v. Sandford 1857 case?

• Enslaved people were property, not citizens and the U.S. could not ban slavery anywhere.

• Slavery was unconstitutional and esnlaved people should be free

• Slavery could continue in the South but any enslaved person brought to a free territory would be free.

What was main issue of the Lincoln v Douglass debates during the Illinois Senate race of 1858 that became so famous?

• the economy

• the military

• slavery

• foreign relations

What did happened at Harper's Ferry?

• John Brown tried to start a rebellion that would bring an end to slavery

• A public march for abolition and an immediate end to slavery

• a new compromise that solved the issue of slavery in the territories and avoided war.

• This was the first battle of the Civil War