5 Written Questions

1. White Northerner. Started an abolitionist paper called The Liberator. Later he founded the Anti-Slavery Society.
2. Many people in the US who worked to end slavery.
3. Ran agains Abraham Lincoln for president as a Democrat. Southern Democrates backed him because he wanted to protect slavery.
4. One of the best known conductors on the Underground Railroad. She was an escaped slave herself.
5. A tax on imported goods.

5 Matching Questions

1. Compromise of 1850
2. Abolished
3. Stephen A. Douglass
4. Border States Status when Civil War began
5. How did regional differences lead to the Civil War?

1. a Ended slavery.
2. b Argued that each new state should decide for itself whether to allow slavery. Ran agains Lincoln for US Senate and won the election.
3. c The North's economy depended on manufacturing while the South's economy depended on cash crops. The North did not depend on slavery, but the South depended on slaves to work their plantations. The tariffs benefitted the North because they were able to charge higher prices for the goods they manufactured. The tariffs hurt the South because they to pay higher prices for goods purchased from Europe and goods purchased from the North. The North believed the federal government should have authority over the individual states. The South believed in states' rights and they should be able to overrule federal laws that hurt them.
4. d California joined the Union as a free state. Utah and New Mexico also joined the Union but were allowed to decide for themselves whether they would be free or slave states.
5. e Border states were states that permitted slavery but had not seceded from the Union. The border states were Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware and Maryland. These states were torn between the North and the South.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Led a group of followers to seize weapons at Harpers Ferry. He planned to give the guns to slaves to they could fight for freedom. He was caught, put on trial and hanged.
   1. Dred Scott
   2. John Breckiridge
   3. John Brown
   4. John C. Calhoun
2. In the Dred Scott decision, slaves were considered property. The Supreme Court ruled that Congress had no rights to abolish slavery. Under the Constitution, Congress is not allowed to pass laws that take away property and slaves were considered property.
   1. Enslaved People Viewed as Property
   2. Frederick Douglass
   3. Republican Party
   4. Underground Railroad
3. Abraham Lincoln was elected president. 6 states seceded from the Union. Fort Sumter was attacked by the Confederacy.
   1. What events caused the Civil War?
   2. Border States Status when Civil War began
   3. Civil War
   4. Stephen A. Douglass
4. System of secret escape routes leading to free lands.
   1. Underground Railroad
   2. Jefferson Davis
   3. John Brown
   4. Andrew Jackson
5. A war between people in the same country.
   1. Slavery
   2. Abolished
   3. Codes
   4. Civil War

5 True/False Question

1. Fugitive Slave Act → Part of the Compromise of 1850. Required all Americans to turn in people who had escaped slavery. This act was very unpopular in the North.
   

   True        False

2. Sectionalism → Many national leaders worked towards goals that were best for their own sections or regions rather than for the whole country.
   

   True        False

3. Border States → Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri. States located between the North and South and torn between the 2 sides. These states permitted slavery but had not seceded.
   

   True        False

4. Jefferson Davis → Many national leaders worked towards goals that were best for their own sections or regions rather than for the whole country.
   

   True        False

5. Sojurner Truth → Supreme Court Justice for the Dred Scott decision.
   

   True        False