Civil War, Lsn1- The Issue of Slavery

Fill in the blank: ________ is the decision by a state to leave the Union.

• secession

• ratification

• annexation

• federalism

Fill in the blank: ________ refers to a series of measures that were intended to settle the disagreements between free states and slave states.

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Purchase

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

Fill in the blank: ________ is the idea that people living in a territory should make their own decisions, especially the decision to admit slavery.

• popular sovereignty

• judicial review

• manifest destiny

• nullification

Fill in the blank: ________ was the Senator from Illinois who worked to pass the Compromise of 1850.

• Stephen A. Douglas

• Henry Clay

• John C. Calhoun

• Daniel Webster

Fill in the blank: ________ was the 13th president of the United States.

• Millard Fillmore

• Franklin Pierce

• Zachary Taylor

• James Buchanan

Fill in the blank: ________ was a law that provided for harsh treatment for escaped slaves and for those who helped them.

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Homestead Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Fill in the blank: ________ was a secret network of people who hid fugitive slaves who went north to freedom.

• Underground Railroad

• Freedom Trail

• Mason-Dixon Line

• Emancipation Proclamation

Fill in the blank: ________ was a famous 'conductor' on the Underground Railroad.

• Harriet Tubman

• Susan B. Anthony

• Sojourner Truth

• Frederick Douglass

Fill in the blank: ________ was the author of the antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Louisa May Alcott

• Mark Twain

• Frederick Douglass

Fill in the blank: ________ was a law that split Nebraska into the territories of Nebraska and Kansas and allowed for popular sovereignty there.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Homestead Act