Build up to the Civil War

The Missouri Compromise, the compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were all efforts to

• end fighting between midwestern farmers and native American Indians

• encourage manufacturing in the west

• increase the number of people who voted in presidential elections

• settle disputes over the spread of slavery to the western territories

This was a mini-Civil War fought in the Kansas territory between pro-slavery settlers and anti-slavery settlers 

• Missouri Compromise 
• Summer if 1856
• Bleeding Kansas
• Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas

"Popular Sovereignty" means

• A king or queen who reigns with a lot of support and his popular

• The right of the people living in a new territory to make a decision on slavery by vote

• The same as "Manifest Destiny," that the U.S. should continue to grow in territory

How did each of the acts in the box above impact the slavery issue within the United States?

• Each act left the decision to spread slavery to the individual states.

• Each act attempted to reduce conflict between slave and free states.

• Each act limited slavery to places where it already existed.

• Each act kept a strict balance between slave and free states.

In 1850, when California was added as a "Free" State, what law was added to the Compromise of 1850 that allowed Southerners to recapture their runaway slaves that made it North?

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Dred Scot Decision

• Popular Sovereignty

• Missouri Compromise

He was an abolitionist that used violence to try to end slavery. He was captured in Harper's Ferry Virginia in 1859, and hanged for treason?

• John Brown

• Thomas Jackson

• Fredrick Douglass

• William Lloyd Garrison

Check all the boxes that describe the North at the start of the Civil War.

• Mostly Large Cities

• Factories

• Mostly Large Farms/Plantations

• Large Population

• Slavery Allowed

Check all the boxes that describe the South at the start of the Civil War.

• Mostly Large Cities

• Factories

• Mostly Large Farms/Plantations

• Cotton and Other Cash Crops

• Slavery Allowed

In 1857, this Supreme Court case ruled that slaves were the same as property and therefore invalidated the Missouri Compromise?

• Dred Scot v. Sanford

• Worcester v. Georgia

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Marbury v. Madison

In 1848, this bill proposed to make slavery illegal in all the territory acquired from Mexico?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Wilmot Proviso