Events Leading to Civil War

Which state was admitted as a free state as a result of the Missouri compromise that added Missouri as a slave state?

• Louisiana
• California
• Maine
• Florida

What was the concern by Southern leaders heading into the Compromise of 1850?

• Southern leaders were afraid that if California was added as a free state it would give the North too much political power
• Southern leaders were afraid of another state being added to the Union in favor of slavery
• Southern leaders thought that the compromise would add stronger fugitive slave laws in the North
• Southern leaders were worried it would lead to high tariffs on European goods coming into the United States

Who was the enslaved man who argued for his freedom because he used to live in a free state?

• Dred Scott
• John Brown
• Harriett Beecher Stowe
• Harriett Tubman

The Kansas-Nebraska Act stated that _______________ would determine slavery in the West.

• popular soverneighty
• he House of Reps
• Constitutional amendments
• the Senate

The North was primarily ___________, while the South was primarily ______________.

• Agricultural, Industrial
• Slave, Free
• Poor, Rich
• Industrial, Agricultural

What law helped southern slaveholders get their runaway slaves back?

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Runaway Act
• 2nd Amendment
• Slaveholder Law

In the Dred Scott Decision, the Supreme Court said that slaves were _________.

• people
• property
• free
• children

Abe Lincoln was elected president in ____.

• 2016
• 1860
• 1942
• 1776

What was the purpose of both the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850?

• They were meant to peacefully resolve disputes over slavery in US territories

• They were passed by the General Assembly to settle the issue of whether or not GA should secede from the Union

• They were adopted to proclaim that states had the right to "nullify" laws believed were unconstitutional

• They formally established the Confederate States of America

Match the following

• anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Fugitive Slave Act

• To formally withdraw from the Union

• Missouri Compromise

• Favoring the interests of one section over the interests of the entire country

• Secede

• Made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest slaves

  in free areas.

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Outlawed slavery in territories north of 36,30 latitude

• Sectionalism