America Causes of the Civil War

Causes of the Civil War

7th grade SS

• 1820

• How to balance political power between Free and Slave States

• Missouri becomes a slave state, Maine becomes a free state

• Slavery banned north of 36'30'' line

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Missouri Compromise

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was NOT an effect of the Missouri Compromise?

• Maine became a slave state

• Missouri became a slave state

• Slavery was banned north of the 36'30'' line

• 1850

• Issues about slavery spreading west

• Free States: California enters as free state, slave trade is banned in Washington DC

• Slave States: strict fugitive slave law, territories can vote to be free or enslave people

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Compromise of 1850

Multiple Choice

Which of the following WAS an effect of the Compromise of 1850?

• Slavery was banned in the territories

• California became a free state

• Uncle Tom's Cabin was required to be read in schools

Uncle Tom's Cabin

• 1854

• novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about Leegre family to show evils of slavery

• North  rallies against slavery, South is outraged by book

Multiple Choice

Uncle Tom's Cabin was an __________ novel written about the issues of slavery

• Abolitionist

• Suffragist

• Secessionist

Kansas-Nebraska Act

• 1856

• How to organize Kansas and Nebraska territories to build a railroad to the west

• Act allowed territory to decide on slavery (popular sovereignty). 

• Anti-slavery and Pro- Slavery settlers fought battles

   in Kansas (Bleeding Kansas)

Multiple Choice

What was one effect of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• A railroad needed to be built in the Kansas-Nebraska Territory

• Pro and Anti-Slavery forces fought it what was known as "Bleeding Kansas"

• The North seceded from the Union

Dred Scott Decision

• 1857

• Is a slave a citizen? Can Congress govern Slavery?

• Court rules: slaves are not citizens, slaves are property, Congress has to protect property

Multiple Choice

The Dred Scott decision was supported in which of the following regions of the country the most?

• The West

• The North

• The South

John Brown's Raid

• 1859

• John Brown, an abolitonist, leads a raid on an arsenal of weapons in Harper’s Ferry, VA. Plans to lead slave revolt. Brown is sentenced to death

Multiple Choice

John Brown's Raid would have been supported in which region of the country?

• The North

• The South

• The West

Election of 1860

• 1860

• Abraham Lincoln, Republican, wins the election.

• South Carolina secedes from the Union

Multiple Choice

True or False: Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860 by winning only the Northern or Free States?

• True

• False

Fort Sumter

• 1860

• Confederates fired on a Union fort off the coast of South Carolina. The Civil War had begun

Multiple Choice

What was one effect of the Battle of Fort Sumter?

• The Civil War ended

• The Civil War started

• This was a turning point in the Civil War

Match

Match the following

• Maine enters US a free state

  Missouri enters US as a slave state

  Slavery banned north of 36'30 line

• California enters US as a free state

  Slave trade banned in Washington DC

  Territories can vote to be free or enslave people

  Strict fugitive slave law passed

• First "battle" of the Civil War

Missouri Compromise

Compromise of 1850

Fort Sumter

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Fort Sumter

Match

Match the following

• Abraham Lincoln is elected President and the South secedes from the Union

• The Supreme Court rules enslaved people are not citizens and Congress cannot make a law against slavery

• Territories are allowed to vote on allowing slavery or not, leads to battles and deaths

• Attempted attack on arsenal to get weapons to support a revolt of enslaved people

• Novel depicting the evils of slavery

Election of 1860

Dred Scott Decession

Kansas-Nebraska Act

John Brown's Raid

Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Election of 1860

• Dred Scott Decession

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• John Brown's Raid

• Uncle Tom's Cabin