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Pre-Civil War
The Road to the Civil War Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What document was written to maintain the balance between free and slave states | The Missouri Compromise |
| How were some slaves treated? | Brutally beaten and tortured |
| Which part of the United States was slavery primarily found? | Southern States |
| Which law returned captured runaway slaves to their owners? | Fugitive Slave Law |
| What happened to people who were caught helping slaves to escape? | They were fined and possibly put into jail. |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote which novel that showed that slavery needed to be reformed? | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Which Compromise admitted California as a free state and banned the slave trade in Washington, D.C.? | The Compromise of 1850 |
| Where did John Brown lead a raid on an armory? | Harpers Ferry |
| In 1860, Abraham Lincoln felt that slavery could continue where it existed, but that it should not be allowed to expand. True or False? | True |
| Was Dred Scott considered to be a person or property? | Property |
| The Mississippi River marked which boundary of the USA at the time of the Missouri Compromise? | The western boundary |
| Territories north of the 36 degrees north latitude were considered free or slave states? | Free states |
| Abraham Lincoln was first elected president in the year.... | 1860 |
| Which of the southern states was the first to secede, or breakaway from the Union? | South Carolina |
| The journey from West Africa to the West Indies and the Americas that slaves traveled aboard crowded and filthy ships was called the.... | The Middle Passage |
| Who was encouraged to work long hours and keep up a fast pace in picking cotton? Slaves or Slave-owners? | Slaves |
| Missouri became part of the United States as a "free state" or a "slave state"? | Slave state |
| True or False; Maryland was forced to be part of the Northern Union states. | True |
| All Black people were treated as equal as White people in the northern states. True or False? | False |
| A person who is against slavery is called an ..... | abolitionist |
| One of the most famous leaders of the Underground Railroad was a former slave from Maryland. Her name was | Harriet Tubman |
| Who was the former slave from Maryland who became an author, a politician, an outspoken abolitionist, and a social reformer? | Frederick Douglas |
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