Road to the Civil War

What was the Missouri Compromise?

• An agreement to abolish slavery in all states

• An agreement between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions

• A law to expand slavery into new territories

• A treaty to end the Mexican-American War

What did the Compromise of 1850 include?

• Admission of California as a slave state

• Admission of California as a free state

• Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Act

• Introduction of popular sovereignty in all states

Who was John Brown?

• A leader of the Republican Party

• A military general in the Mexican-American War

• An abolitionist who led a slave revolt

• A pro-slavery politician

What led to the birth of the Republican Party?

• The effort to keep slavery out of the territories

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Dred Scott decision

What was the Fugitive Slave Act?

• A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves

• A law that granted freedom to all slaves

• A law that allowed slaves to petition for their freedom

• A law that abolished slavery in the South

What prompted the influx of miners to Northern California in 1849?

• The signing of the Missouri Compromise

• The establishment of a new government

• The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill

• The end of the Mexican-American War

What was the significance of the 36-30 line?

• It was the boundary between free and slave territories under the Missouri Compromise

• It was the route taken by slaves escaping to the North

• It was the location of a major slave rebellion

• It was the line where the Fugitive Slave Act was enforced

What was 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?

• A novel portraying slavery as brutal and immoral

• A secret organization to help slaves escape

• A political party advocating for slave rights

• A plantation in the South

What does it mean to secede?

• To abolish slavery in a state

• To negotiate a peace treaty

• To join a political or religious organization

• To formally withdraw from a federal union

What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• A law that allowed the residents of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether to allow slavery

• A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves

• An agreement to admit California as a free state

• A Supreme Court ruling that slaves were not citizens and could not sue for their freedom