Causes of Civil War

Conductor on the Underground Railroad

• Dred Scott

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Henry Clay

• Harriet Tubman

Slave who filed a law suit to win his freedom

• Dred Scott

• John Brown

• Henry Clay

• Abraham Lincoln

The Great Compromiser

• Abraham Lincoln

• Henry Clay

• John Brown

• Dred Scott

Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

• Harriet Tubman

• Henry Clay

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• John Brown

The Underground Railroad helped free slaves by

• Providing them with train tickets

• Teaching slaves to read and write

• Encouraging slave revolts

• Setting up hiding places and routes to the North

The Missouri Compromise

• Banned slavery from new territories

• Allowed popular sovereignty in Missouri

• Kept the number of slave states and free states equal

• Forbade slavery in Missouri

The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850

• Imposed fines and jail terms on anyone who helped runaway slaves

• Was identical to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793

• Reduced tensions between the North and the South

• Applied only in territories admitted after 1850

Winning Republican presidential candidate in 1860.

• Henry Clay

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Brown

• Dred Scott

Abolitionist who led a revolt at Harpers Ferry

• Abraham Lincoln

• Harriet Tubman

• John Brown

• Henry Clay

Abraham Lincoln believed

• That the Kansas Nebraska Act was a good law

• That Stephen Douglass was an abolitionist

• That Congress should abolish slavery at once

• That slavery was a “moral, social, and political wrong”