Grade 8 SS Ch 14

Match the following people to the correct description.

• escaped slave, helped other slaves escap

• Dred Scott

• led a raid on Harpers Ferry to take guns

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• was the President of the Confederate States of America

• Jefferson Davis

• lost Supreme Court case

• John Brown

• wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Harriet Tubman

Which law allowed Southern officials to arrest any person suspected of being a runaway slave?

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Wilmot Proviso

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Dred Scott Decision

Dred Scott lost the Supreme Court case because: ​ ​ (a)  

• slaves were not citizens.
• he ran away.
• his owner testified against him.

The Civil War began after ​ (a)  

• the attack on Fort Sumter.
• the Fugitive Slave Act was passed.
• the Dred Scott decision.
• the Compromise of 1850.

What event caused the Southern states to secede?

• John Brown's raid

• the publishing of Uncle Tom's Cabin

• the election of Abraham Lincoln

• the rise of the Antislavery Partu

The Compromise of 1850 was designed to ease the tensions over slavery. The North got ​ (a)   and ​ (b)   The South got ​ (c)   and ​ (d)  

• California admitted as a free state.
• the Fugitive Slave Law.
• the slave trade banned in the capital .
• people in new states could vote on slavery

Match each word with its definition.

• to leave or withdraw

• popular sovereignty

• people vote directly on issues

• fugitive

• a war between two groups in same country

• secede

• a runaway slave

• civil war

Which state was the first to secede, or leave the Union?

• North Carolina

• Georgia

• Tennessee

• South Carolina

Which was not a direct cause of the Civil War?

• The election of Abraham Lincoln

• states' rights, the right to own slaves

• the Fugitive Slave Law

• preserving the Union

Which was not and effect of the publishing of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?

• Southerners claimed it did not portray slavery accurately.

• It was a bestseller in the North.

• Slaves learned to read.

• People realized how bad slavery really was.