Pre Civil War Assessment

This power let the people decide by state, on whether slavery should be allowed in territories through voting.

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Sectionalism

• Popular Sovereignty

The Southern states wanted the Federal government to have all the power and make all the laws.

• True

• False

_____ was the President of the Confederate States of America, in the South from 1861-1865

• Jefferson Davis

• Bill Clinton

• Abraham Lincoln

The idea that each state had the right to determine whether or not to follow federal laws, or even to secede from the Union.

• Southern Rights

• States' Rights

• Secession

Which compromise allowed Kansas to choose if it was a free or slave based on popular sovereignty?

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Dred Scott Decision

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

What law made it illegal for people in any state to support escaped slaves?

• The Southern Mercenary Act

• The Outlaw Act

• The Fugitive Slave Act

The U.S. Supreme Court's ruled that living in a free state did not entitle a slave to their freedom. The court argued that, as someone's property, a slave was not a citizen and could not sue.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scott Case

April 12th, 1861- Confederate soldiers firing on this fort initiated the Civil War.

• Ft. Bragg

• Ft. Collins

• Ft. Sumter

List three long standing causes of the Civil War. (pick 3!)

• Voting Rights

• Slavery

• States' Rights

• Sectionalism

Law passed that gave North and South part of what they wanted. California admitted as free state, slave trade abolished in DC, and new fugitive slave law passed; advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act