The Causes of the Civil War Wk 18 Assessment

What was the impact of popular sovereignty on Kansas and Nebraska?

• It opened up market to trade enslave people overseas

• It stopped enslaved families from being separated

• It allowed the voters to choose whether to legalize slavery

• It gave governors authority to decide whether slavery was legal

What was the cause of 'Bleeding Kansas'? The conflict over whether Kansas would allow slavery, resulting from the policy of popular sovereignty.

What is Roger B. Taney best known for?

• The Dred Scott decision

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Missouri Compromise

• The First show in the Civil War

What song composed by Daniel Decatur Emmett is this excerpt from?

• Dixie Land

• Yankee Doodle

• Dixie Girl

• The Star-Spangled Banner

What did John Brown do to try to prove his point about abolishing slavery at any cost? What were the results of John Brown’s actions?

What was the big debate about between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas?

• Should the states be their own country

• To add other states to the United States of America

• The US government should decide on slavery

• To legalize slavery and state’s rights

What did the Supreme Court decide in the Dred Scott case? Select all that apply.

• A. Enslaved people were property, not citizens

• B. Congress had no authority to ban slavery

• C. All enslaved people were to be counted as full people

• D. Slavery must be allowed in the Northern states

Read the list • Missouri Compromise • Compromise of 1850 • Kansas-Nebraska Act What is the best title for this list?

• The Civil War

• Us. S. Territorial Expansion

• The Industrial Revolution

• The “Gag Rule” in Congress

Why did the results of the 1860 election cause concern in the South?

What was the Compromise of 1850 about?

• Admitting the Missouri Territory as a “slave state” and Maine Territory as a “free state”

• Allowed the population of the territory to vote to decide if they would legalize slavery

• This law prohibited any discussion in Congress on ending slavery

• Buying and selling of people illegal in Washington and captured enslaved people had to be returned to their legal owners.