What is the name of the group of states that wanted to own slaves?
Abraham Lincoln Haters
The Confederacy
White Supremacists
The Hillbillies
What is another term for the Union?
The Country
The United States
Those Flag People
The Anti-Hillbillies
What did abolitionists want to do?
Arrest everyone with slaves
Have more slaves
Ship slaves elsewhere
End slavery
What did the Supreme Court rule in the Dred Scott decision?
Dred Scott's owner should release him.
Slaves should be freed immediately.
Dred Scott will die a slave.
Slaves are property and do not have rights as Americans.
What was John Brown's goal when he broke into the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry?
Arm the slaves so they can murder their masters.
Start a war between pro-slavery and anti-slavery people.
Murder the masters himself.
Start the Civil War early.
Who won the presidential election of 1860?
Jefferson Davis
Stephen Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
Frederick Douglass
Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis
Ulysses S. Grant
Abraham Lincoln
Robert E. Lee
What was Popular Sovereignty?
The reason colonists broke away from England.
How King George III ruled over the colonists.
When the president is very popular.
The authority of a government comes from the people.
Which side wanted to keep slavery?
The Union
The Confederacy
Which thing did the Kansas-Nebraska Act NOT do?
Repealed the Missouri Compromise.
Let both territories decide if they would be slave or free.
Created two new territories.
Forced Kansas & Nebraska to have slaves.
Which thing did the Kansas-Nebraska Act NOT do?
Created two new territories.
Let both territories decide if they would be slave or free.
Forced Kansas & Nebraska to have slaves.
Repealed the Missouri Compromise.
