The Events Leading to the Civil War

Which state was admitted as a free state as a result of the Missouri compromise that added Missouri as a slave state?

• Louisiana
• California
• Maine
• Florida

What was the concern by Southern leaders heading into the Compromise of 1850?

• Southern leaders were afraid that if California was added as a free state it would give the North too much political power
• Southern leaders were afraid of another state being added to the Union in favor of slavery
• Southern leaders thought that the compromise would add stronger fugitive slave laws in the North
• Southern leaders were worried it would lead to high tariffs on European goods coming into the United States

What was the main issue in the Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854?

• The process for a land lottery system in Kansas and Nebraska
• The process for voting for or against high tariffs
• Whether or not Kansas or Nebraska would become states added to the Union (United States)
• The process for voting on slavery in Kansas and Nebraska

What does "secede" mean?

• something use to plant in the dirt
• rivalry based on the special interests of different areas
• to withdraw or break away from a nation
• the separation or isolation of a race

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a slave state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Ohio

The north was ________ slavery

• For
• Against
• Loving
• in favor of

The right of a state to make political decisions for themselves is called _________. 

• Popular sovereignty
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Slave State
• Free State

Who was the enslaved man who argued for his freedom because he used to live in a free state?

• Dred Scott
• John Brown
• Harriett Beecher Stowe
• Harriett Tubman

The Kansas-Nebraska Act stated that _______________ would determine slavery in the West.

• popular soverneighty
• he House of Reps
• Constitutional amendments
• the Senate

The North was primarily ___________, while the South was primarily ______________.

• Agricultural, Industrial
• Slave, Free
• Poor, Rich
• Industrial, Agricultural