Events Leading to the Civil War #1

Which of the following events was when pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers fought violently?

• Compromise of 1850
• War of 1812
• Kansas-Nebraska Act/Bleeding  Kansas 
• Underground Railroad 

This region relied heavily on slave labor

• North
• South

Abolitionists ___________________ slavery and convinced other to organize the Underground Railroad. 

• enjoyed
• wanted 
• opposed 
• started 

Dred Scott was famous for ___________. 

• being sued by someone else
• suing for his freedom
• being in the military
• being a famous doctor

California entered the Union as a free state while southwest territories would decide the slavery issue themselves.

• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Compromise of 1850

All of these issues between the North and the South lead to the _______________________.

• The Southern War
• The War of 1860
• The Alamo
• Civil War

The Supreme Court ruling that declared that slaves were considered property and went wherever their owners went no matter if that was free state or a slave state.

• Fugitive Slave Act
• The Dred Scott Decision
• Jim Crow Law
• Slave Owner Rights

The Compromise of 1850 included five different laws. Which law was beneficial to the North as part of this compromise?

• South would have to pay the North for any captured slaves

• South promised to reduce the number of slaves

• Slavery was outlawed in the Louisiana territory

• California was admitted as a free state

In what way did the Compromise of 1850 appease the South?

• It created new taxes for railroad construction.

• It included a law for returning escaped slaves

• It provided an end to the slave trade in Washington, D.C.

• It required the Underground Railway to be disbanded.

Use the information below to answer the question that follows.
 • California entered the Union as a free state
 • Utah and New Mexico would decide for themselves
  whether to be slave states or free states
 • The slave trade in Washington, D.C., ended 
 • The Fugitive Slave Law was enacted
This list identifies provisions that were all part of which compromise?

• the Three-Fifths Compromise
• the Missouri Compromise
  
• the Compromise Tariff of 1833
• the Compromise of 1850