Road to the Civil War

Question 1

This package of 5 laws applied the principle of Popular Sovereignty to Utah and New Mexico

Accepted Answer

Compromise of 1850

Question 2

____ reduced sectional conflict through legislation that built compromises on the slavery issue

Accepted Answer

Henry Clay

Question 3

In this case the Supreme Court ruled that congress could not limit the spread of slavery

Accepted Answer

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Question 4

This prohibited slavery in states north of an imaginary line that bears its name

Accepted Answer

Missouri Compromise

Question 5

Henry David Thoreau encouraged ______ which is the idea that citizens shoud disobey unjust laws

Accepted Answer

Civil Disobedience

Question 6

This required police officers to assist in the capture of runaway slaves even in free states

Accepted Answer

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Question 7

The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the Missouri Compromise and applied _____ to the territories

Accepted Answer

Popular Sovereignty

Question 8

This event in 1861 marked the beginning of the US Civil War

Accepted Answer

Attack on Fort Sumter

Question 9

John C. Calhoun believed that...

Accepted Answer

States were sovereign and could reject federal laws

Question 10

During the ____ South Carolina rejected the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 claiming state sovereignty

Accepted Answer

Nullification Crisis

Questions 10