According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, what would decide whether the territories became free or slave?

Before the Civil War, The South was:

In the Fugitive Slave Act, it was ILLEGAL for a northerner to let a runaway slave go free

Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by:

Click ALL that apply. What answers are correct regarding Dred Scott vs. Sandford case?

Hoped to start a slave uprising by raiding the federal arsenal in Virginia.

Click ALL that apply. These events angered the southern states.

Led by groups that wanted to outlaw slavery throughout the U.S. Proslavery Southerners were forced to either leave the state or keep silent. Publications of antislavery literature like The Liberator and Uncle Tom’s Cabin fueled the group’s objective.

Supreme Court case that ruled African Americans were not citizens of the U.S. and slaves were considered property. The court also ruled that Congress could not pass measures limiting the expansion of slavery into the territories.

In 1832, John C. Calhoun of South Carolina argued states had the right to refuse to enforce a federal law if they felt it was unconstitutional; argued that a tax on imported goods would benefit the North only and hurt the South.

time period before the Civil War

depended on trade, industry, and immigrant labor

loyalty to one’s own region rather than the country as a whole

depended on agriculture, cash crops, and slave labor