Causes of the Civil War Review

Series of laws packaged together to resolve a dispute over whether to extend slavery into the Southwest

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Act overturned the Missouri Compromise and led to bloodshed in Kansas

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Northerners had to return runaway slaves to Southern slave owners and those that helped runaways could be fined or imprisoned.

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

relied on agriculture

• The North

• The South

relied on slave labor

• The North

• The South

relied on manufacturing

• The North

• The South

relied on transportation, especially railroads

• The North

• The South

After passage of the Fugitive Slave Act, there was an increase in the number of people who acted as kidnappers and slave catchers.

• True

• False

What did Abolitionists want to do?

• keep the balance of slave and free states

• allow state sovereignty on the issue of slavery

• bring an end to slavery in the US

Which of the following successfully turned many more people against slavery?

• John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry

• Uncle Tom's Cabin published

• Dred Scott v Sanford

• Compromise of 1850