How did the idea of popular sovereignty affect slavery in the United States?

• slavery would not be permitted in unofficial states

• people in the state or territories would vote and decide whether to permit slavery

• slavery would not be permitted anywhere in the country

• the federal government would have the last word on slavery

What was the Fugitive Slave Act?

• a law that made it illegal to trade or sell slaves in Washington D.C.

• a law that allowed fugitives to testify on their own behalf

• a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves

• a law that allowed fugitive slaves to travel to Canada

How did the Fugitive Slave Act cause tension between the North and the South?

• southerners were excited that many free African Americans were fleeing north

• people were angry that some free African Americans had been captured and sent to the South

• many fugitive slaves from the North were pouring into southern cities

• some abilitionists were using violence to get across a message of freedom

How did Uncle Tom's Cabin influence the debate over slavery?

• pushed for the start of the Civil War

• exposed the harsh reality of slave life

• accused the federal government of obeying the southern states

• attacked political figures who supported slavery in the South

What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act do?

• maintained the balance of slave and free states in the Union

• allowed people in these territories to decide if slavery would be permitted

• let the federal government decide on slavery in the Louisiana Purchase

• placed restriction on slavery by the Missouri Compromise

The Supreme Court's ruling in Dred Scott v. Stanford established that

• slaves were allowed to sue slaveholders

• slaved were not allowed to sue slaveholders because they were not citizens

• a residence on free soil makes a slave free

• Congress has the legal power to ban slavery in federal territories

In leading an armed resistance in Virginia in 1859 John Brown was attempting to

• steal weapons and bring them to local slaves

• fight the work of antislavery supporters in Virginia

• control the slaves that had escaped in Virginia

• show his anger over the Dred Scott decision

Which statement best expresses the reason why the southern states decided to secede from the Union?

• they feared that the southern economy and way of life would be destroyed

• slaves would begin an uprising if the states did not secede

• seceding from the Union would end the possibility of war

• secession would end slavery in the South

Who won the election of 1860?

• Stephen Douglas

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Breckinridge

• John Bell

Who led uprisings in both Kansas and Virginia to further the antislavery cause?

• John Bell

• John Brown