This federal law made it illegal to harbor runaway slaves and forced their return to slaveholders in the South if caught.

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

What did Dred Scott argue in the Scott v. Sandford case?

• He was free because he had lived in free states

• He should be a slave because he was born in a slave state

• He had no rights as a black man

• He wanted to sue for his owner's freedom

The South's economy was based on which of the following industries?

• Agriculture

• Industrial Production

• Finance/Banking

• Infrastructure

What were the Northern states during the Civil War known as?

• Confederacy

• Union

• Rebellion

• Territory

A radical abolitionist that believed slavery must be stopped by force. He led a group of anti-slavery volunteers in Kansas.

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Tubman

• John Brown

• Sojourner Truth

What were the southern states called during the Civil War?

• Union

• Confederate

• Loyalist

• Rebel

The idea that the states should be able decide for themselves whether or not they will be a slave or a free state.

• Popular Sovereignty

• Federalism

• State Rights

• Nationalism

SECESSION

• To leave or withdraw

• To join or unite

• To negotiate or bargain

• To observe or watch

Which was the 1st State to secede?

• South Carolina

• Virginia

• Texas

• Georgia

California entered the Union as a free state while southwest territories would decide the slavery issue themselves. What is this agreement called?

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act