Day 75 Exit Ticket

Organize the following items in the order in which they occurred from left to right:

• John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry

• The Compromise of 1850

• THe Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Election of Abraham Lincoln

Match the description to the correct name:

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Escaped to the north but returned dozens of times to help others escape

• Harriet Tubman

• Former slave and abolitionist who wrote a famous autobiography

• Frederick Douglass

• Slave who lost a Supreme Court, establishing that territories could not ban slavery

• John Brown

• Hoped to lead a slave rebellion across the South

• Dred Scott

• Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin

Act made it a federal law that all runaway slaves MUST be returned to their owners in the south. 

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Decision
• Compromise of 1850

Case brought before the Supreme Court involving a slave wanted his freedom: Court decided African Americans CAN'T be citizens and can't sue in federal court.

• Dred Scott Decision
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Fugitive Slave Act

In 1818 Missouri applied to Congress to become a state. At that time there were 11 free states and 11 slave states in the United States. The admission of Missouri as a slave state would upset the balance of states. Congress agreed to admit ​ (a)   as a free state and ​ (b)   as a slave state. The compromise also banned ​ (c)   from any future ​ (d)   or states north of Missouri’s southern border.

• Maine
• Missouri
• territories
• slavery

Popular sovereignty was the political principle that the people of a territory should be able to decide for themselves. Which law from the lead up to the civil war would allow the settlers in western territories to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery or ban it?

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Wilmot Proviso