Unit 6 Test

A bill that would allow states to enter the Union with or without slavery by using popular sovereignty to decide on the issue.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Compromise of 1877

This Act required northern states to capture and return runaway slaves to the south.

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Mason-Dixon Act

• Runaway Act

The Supreme Court ruling stating that slavery could not be banned by Congress, approved of by the south and angering the North.

• Dred Scott v Sandford

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Marbury v Madison

• Brown v Board of Education

Which state was the first to secede from the Union?

• South Carolina

• Georgia

• Florida

• Texas

Abolitionist radical who participated in violence in Kansas and tried to provoke a slave rebellion in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia?

• John Brown

• Frederick Douglass

• Sojourner Truth

• Robert Purvis

What was the event known as "Bleeding Kansas?"

• Armed conflict after the Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed each territory to have popular sovereignty in regards to slavery

• Courthouse where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant

• Abolitionist radical who participated in violence in Kansas and tried to provoke a slave rebellion in Virginia

• Abolitionist and author Uncle Tom's Cabin

This was the site of the first battle of the Civil War.

• Fort Sumter

• Appomattox Courthouse

• Vicksburg

• Gettysburg

Bloodiest battle of the Civil War; the Union victory allowed Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.

• Antietam

• Gettysburg

• Bull Run

• Tippecanoe

What was the new political party that formed to oppose and abolish slavery?

• Republican party

• Democratic party

• Progressive Party

• Free-Soils party

What was the new political party that formed to oppose and abolish slavery?

• Republican party

• Democratic party

• Progressive Party

• Free-Soils party