The Supreme Court decision that said African Americans did not have rights as US citizens.

• Roe v. Wade

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Marbury v. Madison

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

The event where there became two separate Legislatures, one pro  and one antislavery, and people began to physically fight over which was  legitimate, resulting in the death of 200 people.

• Bleeding Kansas

• Caning of Charles Sumner

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• The Raid on Harper's Ferry

To officially withdraw from one country to form another

• civil war

• sectionalism

• secession

• popular sovereignty

Why was the south in favor of slavery?

Select all that apply.

• The south had many plantations.

• They need slaves to work on the plantations.

• Slavery helped the southern economy.

The law that allowed California to enter the union as a free state, under the condition that the Fugitive Slave Act passes Congress, and slavery be left up to popular sovereignty in the Mexican Cession.

• Bleeding Kansas

• Compromise of 1850

• Secession

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

The anti-slavery novel that became a best seller and convinced many people to become abolitionists.

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Fugitive Slave Act

• The Caning of Charles Sumner

A fierce abolitionist, this man led an unsuccessful slave rebellion at Harper’s Ferry and oversaw the murder of many slave owners at the Pottawatomie massacre.

• George Washington

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Brown

• Robert E. Lee

The law permitted slave catchers to enter northern free states and retrieve their runaway slaves. It also made it illegal for Americans to help  slaves escape to the North

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Popular Sovereignty

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas Nebraska Act

Allowing people decide an issue by voting on it.

• Electoral College

• Secession

• Popular Sovereignty

• Popular Vote

During the Civil War era, this political party was pro-slavery

• Republicans

• Democrats