12 - Causes of The Civil War

Newspapers referred to Kansas as

The Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott was to remain an enslaved person

What did the southern states call their new nation?

Law that required all citizens to help capture runaway slaves.

Lincoln wanted to preserve the union and not allow any secession

Missouri was the first state to seceed from the Union

After the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed, pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups

Who won the Presidential Election of 1860?

Thousands of lives were lost at Fort Sumter

Which free state was added as part of the Missouri Compromise

The first battle of the Civil War took place at Harpers Ferry

Bill that said territory north of 36°30' N latitude would be free, and south would be slave.

What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act do?

Anti-slavery political party that formed after the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Which of the following was NOT part of the Compromise of 1850?

Learned to read and write, escaped slavery, became an editor of anti-slavery newspaper

Escaped slavery, "conductor" on the underground railroad

Many opponents of slavery formed their own political party, the Free Soil Party

Killed because of his anti-slavery newspaper office

Which of the following was NOT a reason why the southern states seceded?

Abraham Lincoln was a well-known and famous politician before the 1858 Senate election

The North and South were competing for

Escaped slavery, spoke out against slavery, also support women's rights movement

Free blacks were captured and sold back south as runaway slaves.

Who tried to sue for their freedom on the grounds that they lived in free territories?

Southerners believed their economy and way of life would stay the same without slavery

What did Abolitionists want to do?

Anti-Slavery groups would try to buy slaves' freedom

Which is NOT one of Lincoln's views on Slavery?

Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America

Who led the anti-slavery raid on Harpers Ferry?