8th - causes civil war

The Missouri Compromise tried to maintain the balance between slave states and free states.

• True

• False

People who helped slaves, took the chance of being arrested and jailed if they were caught. 

• True
• False

Whose economy depended on slave labor?

• neither the North or the South
• North
• both the North and the South
• South

Case brought before the Supreme Court involving a slave wanted his freedom: Court decided African Americans CAN'T be citizens and can't sue in federal court.

• Dred Scott Decision
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Fugitive Slave Act

Act made it a federal law that all runaway slaves MUST be returned to their owners in the south. 

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Decision
• Compromise of 1850

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a book to show the cruelties of slavery. What was it called?

• Uncle Bob's Stories
• Uncle Tom's Hotel
• Uncle Joe's Best Recipes
• Uncle Tom's Cabin

John Brown was hanged for leading a raid on _____.

• Independence Square
• Truman Corners
• Harper's Ferry
• The Landing

What part of the Compromise of 1850 upset the North the most?

• Allowing California in as a free state
• Ending the slave trade in Washington DC
• using popular sovereignty to decide Utah and New Mexico
• the stricter Fugitive Slave Act

This law allowed slavery to expand in the West through popular sovereignty.

• Missouri Compromise
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Case

Secede means

• to win.

• to lose.

• to change.

• to withdraw.