Causes of the Civil War

An arsenal where John Brown began and ended his plan to create a slave revolt in the South in 1859

• Ferryland
• Harpers Ferry
• Seneca Falls
• Washington D.C.

Allowed the federal government to arrest any person accused of being a runaway slave, even in free states

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Wilmot Proviso
• The Declaration of Sentiments
• Harper's Ferry

An enslaved person who sued for his freedom after having lived in a free state

• Roger B. Taney
• Dred Scott
• Stephen Douglass
• John Brown
• Stephen Douglas

Citizens could be jailed or fined for helping runaway slaves because of the

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Democrat Party
• Election of 1852

The result of the Dred Scott decision was that

• slaves are property, not citizens
• slaves are free if living in a free state
• slavery can be outlawed in the territories
• Lincoln became more famous

Which act of Congress added a slave and free state and outlawed slavery in new states North of 36"30' in the Louisiana Territory?

• Compromise of 1850
• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Wilmot Proviso

A consequence of the Kansas-Nebraska Act was:

• violence between pro-slavery and abolitionist groups
• gold was discovered in Nebraska
• John Brown led a slave revolt
• Dred Scott sued for his freedom

A result of Abraham Lincoln winning the 1860 presidential election was:

• 7 southern states seceded to form the Confederacy
• President Buchanan threatened to invade South Carolina
• Senator Sumner was beaten on the Senate floor
• the border states sided with the Confederacy

Was a failed attempt to help slaves rise up against their owners.

• Lincoln/Douglas Debates
• John Brown's Raid
• The Underground Railroad
• Bleeding Kansas

What was an effect of the Kansas Nebraska Act?

• Popular Sovereignty led to armed conflicts between slave owners and abolitionists.
• Slaveholders gained the right to establish slavery in the territiories.
• The extension of slavery was prohibited in the new territories.
• Residents of Kansas and Nebraska were prohibited from considering the issue of slavery until the territories became states.