Causes of the Civil War

__________________ became a slave state as a result of the Missouri Compromise.

• Michigan

• Maine

• Minnesota

• Missouri

The Compromise of 1850 made ___________ a free state.

• California

• Utah

• Maine

• Missouri

The most hated provision of the Compromise of 1850 for abolitionists was __________________.

• California becoming a free state

• The slave trade being abolished in Washington, DC

• Utah and New Mexico territories being open to slavery

• The Fugitive Slave Act

The Compromise of 1850 made ________________ illegal in Washington, DC

• the slave trade

• indentured servitude

• slavery

Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by ________________.

• Henry Ward Beecher

• Herman Melville

• Emily Dickinson

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed in 1854. It allowed the people in these territories to vote on whether to allow slavery. This concept of allowing the people to choose whether their state would be free or slave was known as _______________________________.

• popular sovereignty

• popular independence

• popular sectionalism

As a result of popular sovereignty, fighting erupted in1855 in the territory of _________________ between pro-slavery forces and settlers who opposed the spread of slavery.

• Missouri

• Nebraska

• Iowa

• Kansas

In 1856, abolitionist Senator _____________________ was attacked and nearly beaten to death after giving a speech condemning slavery.

• Preston Brooks

• Charles Sumner

_______________ was a slave who sued for his freedom after living for a period of time in a free state.

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Jacobs

• Dred Scott

• Nat Turner

In the 1857 Dred Scott case, the US Supreme Court ruled that blacks _________________________.

• must move to Liberia after emancipation

• were not citizens

• had limited voting rights

• were barred from working in federal jobs