Causes of the Civil War Review/Study Guide

This policy stated that the voters in a new territory should decide whether to allow slavery there

• Popular Sovreignty

• Fugititve Slave Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

Which statement is TRUE regarding the way of life in the South after the American Revolution?

• The South developed busy cities and embraced industry

• The South had many immigrants and became many diverse

• The South was a farming society based on cotton

• Southern states used popular sovreignty to decide on slavery

This means to break away from the Union.

• Know-Nothings

• Secede

• Bleeding Kansas

• Underground Railroad

The Compromise of 1850 did all of the following EXCEPT

• California was admitted as a free state

• Popular sovereignty was applied to territories taken from Mexico

•  A new Fugitive Slave Act forced citizens to help catch runaway slaves

• Ended the slavery crisis once and for all

All of these books brought attention to the issue of slavery and supported abolitionism EXCEPT

• Uncle Tom’s Cabin

• The Scarlet Letter

• Blake

• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

This was a system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada

• Underground Railroad

• Harriet Tubman

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Bleeding Kansas

Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a novel published in 1852 which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral

• Martin Delaney

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Frederick Douglass

• John Brown

Created two midwest territories as states in 1854 and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Crittenden Compromise

Violent white abolitionist from New York responsible for Bleeding Kansas, the raid on Harpers Ferry and was motivated by God to end slavery

• John Brown

• Abraham Lincoln

• Frederick Douglas

• John Bell

Mississippi senator who became president of the Confederacy

• Jefferson Davis

• Stephen A. Douglas

• John Brown

• Abraham Lincoln