Road to Civil War

Government officials could arrest anyone suspected of being a runaway slave because of this law.

• Dred Scott case

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Slave Codes

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

This novel explored the harsh realities of slavery and let readers see what slavery was really like

• La Amistad

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Gettysburg Address

• Slave codes

This means to leave or withdraw, and is what South Carolina did in 1860.

• Fugitive

• Secede

• Popular sovereignty

• Compromise

This means that the people get to decide on an issue, including whether or not to allow slavery in their territory

• Abolition

• Secede

• Popular sovereignty

• Populist

He was a radical abolitionist, took part in "Bleeding Kansas", and attacked pro-slavery leaders with broad swords.

• Dred Scott

• Jefferson Davis

• John Brown

• Abraham Lincoln

_____ was the first state to secede when Abraham Lincoln was elected president.

• North Carolina

• South Carolina

• Missouri

• Alabama

Which of the following statements accurately describes the effect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act? 

• Arguments about slavery always ended peacefully.

• All Americans were willing to compromise about slavery.

• Most Northerners thought only Congress should deal with slavery.

• Some Americans resorted to violence when dealing with the issue of slavery.

This legislation brought California in as a free state, and also created Utah and New Mexico. The Fugitive Slave Act was included in this legislation, as well:

• Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scott Decision

• Fugitive Slave Law

What movement relied on following your conscience?

• abolition

• transcendentalism

• civil disobedience

• sectionalism

What term means loyalty to your region?

• transcedentalism

• nationalism

• sectionalism

• regionalism