The Road to the Civil War

What did the Fugitive Slave Law do?

• The underground railroad was ended
• Slaves that ran-away would be jailed
• Made it illegal for slaveholders to recapture their slaves
• Made it easier for slaveholders to find and reclaim runaway slaves

What state would be added to the Union as a free state according to the Compromise of 1850

• Oregon
• California
• Michigan
• Iowa

In what way did the Compromise of 1850 appease the South?

• It created new taxes for railroad construction.
• It provided an end to the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
• It included a law requiring the return of escaped slaves
• It added California as a slave state

This was a mini-Civil War fought in the Kansas territory between pro-slavery settlers and anti-slavery settlers 

• Missouri Compromise 
• Summer if 1856
• Bleeding Kansas
• Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas

Why were a lot of people moving to Kansas to vote?

• Popular sovereignty was allowing people to vote if they wanted Kansas to be a free state or a slave state

• They wanted Abraham Lincoln to be elected

• They wanted Charles Robinson to be elected Governor

• They really like voting

Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

• "Harriet Beecher Stowe"

• "John Brown"

• "Harriet Tubman"

• "William Lloyd Garrison"

What law repealed (cancelled) the Missouri Compromise?

• Compromise of 1850

• Wilmot Proviso

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Treaty of Paris 1783

What territory saw a Civil War break out over the issue of free/slave state?

• Missouri

• Kansas

• California

• Nebraska

Industry/ Manufacturing

• North 
• South

Larger population

• Union
• Confederacy