Who am I, What am I? Causes of the Civil War

Who am I, What am I? Causes of the Civil War

By Ms. Hoagland

Use the following slides to complete the review over Causes of the Civil War.

Some of the events or people we may not have studied, but please complete them to the best of your ability. ​

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Please skip the box asking about the first battle of the Civil War. ​

Instructions

Multiple Choice

Who is known as the Great Compromiser?

• Abraham Lincoln
• Stephen Douglas
• Dred Scott
• Henry Clay

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was not a part of the Missouri Compromise?

• Maine came in as a free state

• Maine came in as a slave state
• the balance in Congress stayed equal
• The 36' 30' line was created (divided North/South)

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say — I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

Harriet Tubman​

-Added California as a Free State

-Utah & New Mexico Territories opened to slavery by Popular Sovereignty 

-Outlawed slave trade in D.C.

-Fugitive Slave Act

-No black people safe in the North

-Northerners forced to aid slave catchers

Compromise of 1850

Multiple Choice

The Compromise of 1850 outlawed the slave trade in 

• Atlanta
• Washington D.C.
• New York City
• All states

Multiple Choice

What law helped southern slaveholders get their runaway slaves back?

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Runaway Act
• 2nd Amendment
• Slaveholder Law

I was the author of the famous anti-slave novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

I wrote it in 1852.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

Multiple Choice

How did "Uncle Tom's Cabin" help the abolitionist movement?

• It showed Northerners that slavery was a problem
• It created new laws
• It taught many slaves how to read
• It only hurt the reform movement

I sued for my freedom and lost.

Dred Scott

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In 1853, declared slaves were not citizens, and declared the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. ​

Scott vs Sandford

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In 1854, a law was passed and people voted to make Kansas a slave state. They forced themselves into Kansas and fought for control. The battle was called "Bleeding Kansas."

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

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I wanted to free slaves. I took over an arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Virginia in 1859. Several people were killed. I was executed and became a martyr in the North.

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Raid on Harper's Ferry (with John Brown) ​

Multiple Choice

The purpose of John Brown's raid was to....

• steal supplies and sell them for money
• get his name in the local newspapers
• start a slave revolt
• get the 13th amendment passed

Multiple Choice

A tax on imported goods was called a ______________.  The south did not like this because they needed imports.

• states' right
• tariff
• farce
• Union

I was the election that had 4 candidates, where one person's name wasn't even on the ballot in every state.

Lincoln wins the presidency in 1860. ​

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Election of 1860

Multiple Choice

Party led by Abraham Lincoln, accepted slavery where it existed but opposed its expansion into new territories

• Federalism
• Republicans

• Confederation
• Democrats

I was the country formed in 1860 when 7 states seceded from the Union.

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Secede: I mean to formally break away from one's country. ​

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​Confederacy

I was president of the Confederate States of America.

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Jefferson Davis