before the civil war

First state to secede from the Union

• North Carolina

• South Carolina

• Virginia

• Georgia

Who won the presidential election of 1860?

• Goerge Washington

• Abraham Lincon

What was the major outcome of John Brown’s Raid?

• many people in the south feared a slave revolt

• more pro-slave laws

What issue was slavery

• Moral

• legal

What was the main platform for the republican party?

• They wanted more industry

• They disliked slavery.

• They liked slavery

• they wanted more land

What political party was started after the Kansas/Nebraska Act?

• The Republican Party

• The Democratic Party

What amendment says that the government can not take your property away?

• Fifth Amendment

• tenth Amendment

• fourth Amendment

• second Amendment

What was the most shocking result of the Dred Scott Supreme Court Decision?

• Northern’s disliked the Compromise because it allowed slavery to spread north and west , and Southerners disliked the Compromise's lack of land for future slave states.

• Mexican/american war

• Strong Fugitive Slave Law

• Claimed that all black people were property and could never be free/citizen

Why did Dred Scott sue for his freedom?

• He was a free man who was kidnapped into slavery

• He lived in a free state with his master.

• 10th amendment right

Who beat Senator Sumner on the Senate floor?

• Preston Brooks

• John Browns

• Henry Clay

• daniel webster