Unit 7 Vocabulary Quiz- Civil War

After Lincoln became president, South Carolina decided to ________ ​ from the Union (United States of America)​ .

• secede

• compromise

• emancipation

Harriet Beecher Stowe and John Brown were ___________ that wanted the practice of slavery to end.

• plantation owners

• secede

• abolitionists

What law admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time, and also outlawed slavery above the 36º 30' latitude line in the remainder of the Louisiana Territory.

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

In the Kansas-Nebraska Act __________ was used to determine if the new states would be pro or anti slavery. This is government based on the consent of the people.

• emancipation

• popular sovereignty

• succession

President Lincoln issued the _________ __________ which declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Gettysburg Address

• Emancipation Proclamation

______________ called for the admission of California as a "free state," provided the territories of Utah and New Mexico, and called for the abolition of slave trade in Washington, D.C.

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

____________ required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. The act also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves.

• Missouri Compromise 1820

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Fugitive Slave Act

The speech that President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

• I Have a Dream

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Gettysburg Address

Harriet Tubman was a "conductor" on the _____________. It was a network of people, African American as well as white, offering shelter and aid to escaped enslaved people from the south.

• Amtrak

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Underground Railroad