Antebellum

The Fugitive Slave was a part of what Compromise?

• The Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Compromise of 1850
• Tariff Compromise

What was South Carolina's response to the Election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the US?

• Rejoiced
• Seceeded
• Popular Soverignty
• Asked for a recount

This law allowed Missouri to become a slave state at the same time Maine became a free state.  It prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory.

• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas Nebraska Act
• Fugitive Slave Laws

This law allowed California to become a free state and gave southerners the Fugitive Slave Act.

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Dred Scott Decision

• Compromise of 1850

Under the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, how would Kansas and Nebraska decide if they were a free or slave state?

• lottery
• President would decide
• Governors would decide
• popular sovereignty

Popular sovereignty means

• let the people vote on the decision
• pro slavery
• fight for a cause
• to die for a cause

What is sectionalism?

• The belief that your part of the country is the BEST.  You put your part of the country's needs in front of what is best for the WHOLE nation.
• A vote where the people decide on an issue.
• A person who works to bring an end to or believes in NO slavery.  
• A warehouse that  stores guns and ammunition

What compromise established the 36' 30" line?

• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas- Nebraska Act

What pro-slavery event ruled that slaves were property and not citizens?

• Wilmot Proviso
• Free-Soil Party
• Dred Scott Decision
• Uncle Tom's Cabin

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

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Ohio