Events Leading to the Civil War

This act established Kansas and Nebraska as territories and allowed residents to decide on whether or not to allow slavery in the newly established territories

• Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854

• Wilmot Proviso

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

The Compromise of 1850 included five different laws. Which law was beneficial to the North as part of this compromise?

• South would have to pay the North for any captured slaves

• South promised to reduce the number of slaves

• Slavery was outlawed in the Louisiana territory

• California was admitted as a free state

What arsenal did John Brown attack in 1859?

• Kansas

• Harper's Ferry

• Pottawatomie Massacre

Six weeks after Lincoln was elected the South began talking of withdrawing from the Union. This is called.....

• Succeeded

• Withdrawing

• Secession

• Succession

The book that was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe which focused on the atrocities of slavery is called.....

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• The Atrocities of Slavery

• The Underground Railroad

• The Southern Overseer

Lincoln's election as president lead to this

• Southern states seceding from the union 
• state's rights
• lack of government support

The Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were beneficial to the south because

•  they caused the US to unite and form a strong federal government
• they were the beginning of the Temperance movement
• they brought about the use of popular sovereignty to make decision about slavery

Who was the enslaved man who argued for his freedom because he used to live in a free state?

• Dred Scott
• John Brown
• Harriett Beecher Stowe
• Harriett Tubman

What law helped southern slaveholders get their runaway slaves back?

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Runaway Act
• 2nd Amendment
• Slaveholder Law

In the Dred Scott Decision, the Supreme Court said that slaves were _________.

• people
• property
• free
• children