Events Leading up to the Civil War Pt 1-Emrich

What resulted from the Fugitive Slave Act?

Most Northerners refused to obey the law

Who were the armed pro-slavery group from Missouri who crossed the boarder to Kansas to vote?

Boarder Ruffians

What is the meaning of abolition?

To stop/ban slavery

Something that was not a problem with enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act was:

Slave catchers being banned North of the Ohio River

Who won the presidential election of 1848?

Zachary Taylor

True or False: Part of the Fugitive Slave Act said anyone who helped a runaway slave could be fined or jailed.

True

True or False: David Wilmot and the Free-Soilers wanted to ban slavery because they

thought it was wrong.

False (they were more concerned of jobs for white men being in jeopardy)

True or False: To secede means to be good at something.

False (means to withdraw)

True or False: Popular sovereignty is the idea people are the source of government’s power and can choose how they want to be governed.

True

True or False: Most Missouri settlers were from slave states and wanted Missouri to be a slave state.

True

True or False: The Missouri Compromise stated the slave trade, not the practice of slavery would be illegal in Washington, D.C.

False (Compromise of 1850)

True or False: The Fugitive Slave Act was part of the Compromise of 1850.

True

True or False: John Brown was a firm believer in the idea of popular sovereignty to determine whether a state should/should not have slaves.

False

True or False: Kansas earned the nickname “Bleeding Kansas” because it was where the first official battle of the Civil War was located.

False

True or False: The South wanted to maintain the balance of free and slave states so the Senate remained evenly matched, preventing the North from interfering with slavery.

True

What document proposed to ban slavery in any lands acquired from Mexico?

Wilmot Proviso

What proposed to have people vote on whether to allow slavery in their state or not?

Kansas-Nebraska Act

What stated that California would enter the Union as a free state and Utah and New Mexico would be open to slavery?

Compromise of 1850