American Revolution - Road to the Civil War

Tensions rose when Southerners felt threatened by growing Republican Power and violence increased their fears ending in bloodshed in Harper's Ferry Virginia

• Bleeding Kansas

• John Brown's Raid

• Election of 1860

• Fugitive Slave Act

Free and slave states disagreed over slavery being permitted in the West. This led to the formation of ___________________

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Free-Soil Party

• Republican Party

_____________ crossed state lines and illegally voted in an election to ensure a proslave legislature would be in office.

• Anti-slavery forces

• Exodusters

• fugitives

• Border Ruffians

Tensions broke out in the Northern and Southern regions when Harriet Beecher Stowe exposed the evils of Slavery

• John Brown's Raid

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• The Abolitionists Papers

• Underground Railroad

During the 1860 Election, presidential candidate Stephen A. Douglas ran on a platform stating the issue of slavery in the West should be determined by

• State's Rights

• Popular Sovereignty

• Border Ruffians

• Fugitive Slave Act

Claiming ___________________, southerners decided to secede from the Union.

• Popular Sovereignty

• State's Rights

• Free-Soil Party

• Violence in Congress

Who were the two candidates in the Election of 1860? Last name only and capitalize the first letter in their name

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Ended slavery in the South

• Banned slavery in new territories

• Created the Republican Party

• Introduced popular sovereignty to unorganized territories

The Fugitive Slave Act

• Banned slavery in Washington D.C.

• Provided safety for escaped slaves

• Forced all Americans to help catch escaped slaves

• Offered free slaves land in the West

What was decided in the Supreme Court case of Dred Scott v. Sanford?

• Slaves who were taken into free Northern states could not be taken back into the South and enslaved again

• Slavery was a violation of First Amendment rights

• Slaves were not permitted to serve in the United States Army

• Slaves had no citizen rights and were not protected by the Constitution