CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR

Who were people who joined together to end slavery?

• Abolitionists
• Revolutionaries
• Activists
• Reformers

What was a series of escape routes and hiding places for slaves to travel through?

• Underground Railroad
• Skyway to Liberty
• Overground Railroad
• Freedom Highway

As the country grew, did congress try to keep more free states or slave states?

• FREE STATES

• SLAVE STATES

Why did Northerners want to have a lot of representatives in Congress?

• To limit the power of the federal government
• To decrease their representation in Congress
• To increase taxes on the South
• So they could pass laws against slavery

What was the Missouri Compromise?

• A treaty signed in 1850 to abolish slavery in the United States
• A law passed in 1865 granting citizenship to former slaves
• An executive order issued in 1863 to free slaves in Confederate states
• Missouri could be a free state and Maine would be a slave state.

When Congress created the invisible line across the rest of the territories, what happened to the territories south of the line?

• Territories south of the line would allow slavery.

• They formed their own union.
• They were annexed by Canada.
• They became independent nations.

What is popular sovereignty?

• The right of people to make political decisions for themselves.

• Popular sovereignty is the principle that the government should have absolute power over its citizens.
• Popular sovereignty is the belief that a monarch's power is derived from divine right.
• Popular sovereignty is the rule of the majority without regard to the rights of the minority.

What did the Fugitive Slave Law say about escaped slaves?

• Escaped slaves were granted freedom upon reaching a free state.
• Escaped slaves were required to pay a fine for their escape.
• Escaped slaves were allowed to join the Union army.
• They had to be returned to slavery.

Why did the Kansas-Nebraska Act upset abolitionists?

• It gave territories north of the line created in the Missouri Compromise the right to have slaves.

• It proposed the division of Kansas into two separate states
• It limited the rights of free African Americans
• It supported the expansion of slavery into new territories

TRUE OR FALSE: By 1860, the North and South were very divided over slavery and were finding it more and more difficult to compromise.

• TRUE

• FALSE