Path to the Civil War

Question 1

This stated that all citizens (in both north and south) were obligated to return runaway slaves.

Accepted Answer

Fugitive Slave Law

Question 2

Act that caused thousands of people to go to these territories in order to vote and fight for their position on slavery.

Accepted Answer

Kansas-Nebraska

Question 3

The south threatened to leave the union for the first time. This dispute was over tariffs.

Accepted Answer

Nullification Crisis

Question 4

This invention increased the number of slaves and expanded slavery.

Accepted Answer

cottin gin

Question 5

This ruling meant that slavery was legal in all the territories and the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

Accepted Answer

Dred Scott decision

Question 6

Americans pushed west as a result of this principle and the issue of slavery came to the forefront.

Accepted Answer

Manifest Destiny

Question 7

Agreement made so that CA could enter the union w/o upsetting the balance of power between slave and free states.

Accepted Answer

Compromise of 1850

Question 8

This highlighted the cruelty of slavery and helped change the way many Northerner's felt about slavery.

Accepted Answer

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Question 9

A compomise that counted part of the population of slaves for purposes of the taxes and representatives in the House.

Accepted Answer

3/5th Compromise (Constitution)

Question 10

Agreement reached to keep the balance of power in the Senate. MO entered the US as a slave state, ME as a free state.

Accepted Answer

Missouri Compromise

Question 11

This man and a group of abolitionists raided Harpers Ferry, VA. He hoped it would lead to a massive slave uprising.

Accepted Answer

John Brown

Question 12

Bitter violence and more that 200 people died over the issue of slavery in this location.

Accepted Answer

Bloody Kansas

Questions 12