Pre-Civil War

Which novel was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe to expose the cruelty of slavery?

• Little House on the Prairie
• The Liberator
• Slavery must be stopped
• Uncle Tom's Cabin

The ______________was part of the Compromise of 1850 and made it a crime (illegal) to help runaway slaves.

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Fugitive Criminal Act
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• California-Maine Act

Which describes the economy of the South?

• plantations; dependent on slavery
• industry; not dependent on slavery

What is an abolitionist?

• Someone who is against slavery
• Someone who is for slavery
• A confederate soldier
• A Union soldier

What proposition would allow congress to ban slavery in all territory that might become part of the United States as a result of the Mexican American War.

• Wilmot Proviso
• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise 1850
• Kansas & Nebraska Act

What law allowed special government officials to arrest any person accused of being a runaway slave?

• Fugitive Slave Act 1850
• Emancipation Proclomation
• Underground Railroad
• Kansas Nebraska Act

A Pre-Civil War political doctrine that held that individual states should decide whether to permit slavery or not.

• secession
• antebellum
• Sojourner Truth
• popular sovereignty

* California became a free state

* Utah and New Mexico were created and given popular sovereignty

* ended the slave trade in Washington DC

* Forced a stronger Fugitive Slave Law

* Texas boundary resolved

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Emancipation Proclamation

• State Taxation

Which statement best describes the causes of the Civil War

• The North wanted their own slaves
• The south wanted slavery and states' rights
• the south wanted a strong federal government
• The North was angry about Lincoln's death

What proposition would allow congress to ban slavery in all territory that might become part of the United States as a result of the Mexican American War.

• Wilmot Proviso
• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise 1850
• Kansas & Nebraska Act