Category 1
Which group was among the first to call for an end to slavery?
Quakers
Powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution , nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
10th Amendment
What significant event happens after Lincoln is elected President?
South Carolina secedes from the Union.
What is being described
California becomes a free state
Strict Fugitive Slave law adopted
Slave trade banned in District of Columbia
Compromise of 1850
What principle of the constitution does the 10th Amendment address?
Limited Government.
Why was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 imposed?
To appased southern slave owners by allowing them to seek out and return fugitive slaves from free states.
What is the significances of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Many Northerners changed how they felt about slavery and supported abolition.
Northern law enforcement officials would attempt to capture runaway slaves because of what law?
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
What was an effect of the high tariff policies during the early 19th century before the Civil War?
State Rights became an issue of constitutionality
What significant event takes place right before South Carolina secedes from the Union?
The Election of 1860
What condition did both slaves and free blacks in the United States experience in the antebellum period?
Both were denied citizenship rights.
Which event confirmed the fear many Southerners had of rebellion by enslaved persons?
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry and Nat Turner's Rebellion.
Many northerers believed that slavery was being "forced down their throats" when which legisture made it possible for slavery to become legal in territories where it had once been banned by the Missouri Compromise?
Kanas-Nebraska Act
Davis believed that the federal government made ______________ necessary
Lincoln believed the Union should be _____________
Secession
Preserved
How did the expansion of slavery lead to the Civil War?
By increasing the tension over state rights
By inspiring the creation of the Republican Party that opposed the spread of slavery