Unit 8, Lesson 2: Heading Toward War

Name the book that changed people's views on slavery.

• Uncle Tom's Canoe

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Protesting Slaves

• The South's Slaves

Read through the list. Select those who were abolitionists.

• Frederick Douglas

• Angelina Grimke

• John Brown

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

What does "abolish" mean?

• to pause

• to continue

• to end or stop

• to begin

_________ helped enslaved people escape slavery.

• Conductors

• Passengers

• Slave owners

• The law

This said that all slaves would be returned to their rightful owners if they escaped.

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Underground Railroad

Which was NOT part of the Compromise of 1850?

• Fugitive Slave Law

• California admitted to Union

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• No slave sales in Washington, D.C.

As part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, what would decide to accept or ban slavery?

• Congress

• President

• Popular Sovereignty

• Supreme Court

The Kansas-Nebraska Act overturned what?

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Louisiana Purchase

• Missouri Compromise

Northern abolitionists created a new political party. What was this party?

• Democratic-Republican

• Republican

• Whig

• Independent

Many Northerners and Southerners moved to Kansas after the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The fighting that followed became known as __________.

• John Brown's War

• Bleeding Kansas

• The Fight to End Slavery

• The Civil War