Quiz - Road to Civil War

Close reading the map, where was the Missouri Compromise line?

• 36-30 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase

• 46-40 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase

• 56-50 degrees north in the Louisiana Purchase

Which state entered the Union as a free state as a result of the Compromise of 1850?

• California

• Maine

• Missouri

• Texas

Where was the safest place for a runaway slaves to go after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850?

• Virginia

• Canada

• California

• Pennsylvania

This was a mini-Civil War fought in the Kansas territory between pro-slavery settlers and anti-slavery settlers 

• Missouri Compromise 
• Summer if 1856
• Bleeding Kansas
• Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas

Sued the U.S. government for his freedom and lost.

• Stephen Douglas

• Dred Scott

• Frederick Douglass

• John Brown

A well-known abolitionist who was willing to use violence to end slavery and was eventually hung for treason.

• John Brown

• James Lane

• David Rice Atchison

• Sam Jones

California came into the Union as a _____ state.

• Free

• Slave

This man raided the town of Harper's Ferry in 1859 in an attempt to free slaves.

• John Brown

• Nat Turner

• Dred Scott

• Abraham Lincoln

Why was the Free-Soil Party formed?

• To make sure farmers could get free land

• So that territory gained in the Mexican-American War be free from slavery

• To keep slavery out of the Northern States

• So that the Louisiana Territory remain free from slavery

(Please select three correct answers) In the Dred Scott case, the Supreme Court ruled that slaves...

• were NOT citizens of the U.S.

• had NO right to sue in court.

• were considered to be the property of their owner.

• should all be freed immediately.