1. People who traveled on the Underground Railroad were called _____.

a. sailors
b. passengers
c. conductors
d. operators

2. The Republic Party was formed to _____.

a. build a transcontinental railroad
b. pass the Kansas-Nebraska Act
c. oppose the spread of slavery
d. support slavery

3. What was important about the Dred Scott decision?

a. It abolished slavery.
b. It imposed big fines on slave owners.
c. It closed the Underground Railroad.
d. It meant that if enslaved people were taken to free states, they were still enslaved.

4. Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act _____________.

a. to anger Southern slave owners
b. so it could admit California as the 31st state
c. to close the Underground Railroad
d. to keep Northern abolitionists from forming a new party

5. The first battle of the Civil War took place in ____________.

a. South Carolina
b. Virginia
c. North Carolina
d. Georgia