1850 to 1860's

The concept of popular sovereignty under the Kansas-Nebraska Act:

• allowed Kansas to enter the Union as a slave state.  
• made the Underground Railroad legal.  
• brought about the Dred Scott decision.  
• allowed the people who lived in Kansas Territory to decide e3ht fate of slavery in the state.  

? was a well-known abolitionist who was willing to use violence to end slavery and was hanged for treason.  

• David Rice Atchison
• John Brown
• Andrew Reeder
• Charles Robinson

Abolitionists believed slavery was immoral and should be abolished.  

• True 
• False

True or False: The Fugitive Slave Act allowed officials to arrest runaway slaves in the free areas?

• True
• False

An act of violence where pro-slavery forces sought out anti-slavery members to punish them for treason.

• Sack of Lawrence
• Pottawatomie Massacre
• Bleeding Kansas
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Democrat Stephen A. Douglas sponsored what became known as the Kansas-Nebraska Act because ______.

• He opposed the expansion of slavery into western territories
• He was a southerner
• He was an abolitionist
• He supported construction of a transcontinental railroad

The Dred Scott case made what Compromise unconstitutional.  

• The Compromise of 1850
• The Great Compromise
• The 3/5th Compromise
• The Missouri Compromise

What did John Brown hope to achieve by his raid at Harpers Ferry?

• to create a slave rebellion that would bring an end to slavery
• to bring attention to the conflict between the North and the South
• to bring the two sides together to form a new compromise
• to create a revolution that would lead to a war between the states

The Fugitive Slave Act led to the creation of the Underground Railroad and created tension between the North and the South

• True
• False

What serious problem in the U.S. led to the Civil War?

• sectionalism
• free enterprise
• patriotism 
• consumerism