Road to the Civil War

_____________ is the process of people deciding on an issue themselves.

• Federalism

• Checks and balances

• Republicanism

• Popular sovereignty

____________ resulted in the growth of the abolitionist movement in the North.

• Common Sense

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Interchangeable Part

• Transcendentalism

Fighting breaks out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Three-fifths Compromise

• Nullification Crisis

• Missouri Compromise

Which court case involved an enslaved person?

• Marbury v. Madison

• McCullough v. Maryland

• Gibbons v. Ogden

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

California would enter as a free state and runaway slaves could be recaptured under the...

• Three-Fifths Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln wins the Presidential election of 1860, resulting in....

• South Carolina seceding

• Harriet Beecher Stowe writing Uncle Tom's Cabin

• the Fugitive Slave act being passed by Congress

• the Annexation of Texas

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

• It created new taxes for railroad construction.
• It provided an end to the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
• It included a law requiring the return of escaped slaves
• It added California as a slave state

What did the Fugitive Slave Law do?

• The underground railroad was ended
• Slaves that ran-away would be jailed
• Made it illegal for slaveholders to recapture their slaves
• Made it easier for slaveholders to find and reclaim runaway slaves

What is popular sovereignty?

• Where sovereignty is left to the government to decide

• Where sovereignty is left to the people to decide

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Harriet Beecher Stowe