Causes of the Civil War

States in the South believed

• They should have more representatives in Congress
• They were better
• They should have the right to decide their own laws
• They were French

Who threatened to leave the Union after President Lincoln was elected? 

• Southern States
• Northern States
• Hawaii
• Great Britain

Why did the Southern states want to leave the Union?

• They knew many Republicans were against Slavery
• They were sore loosers
• They wanted to move
• They were against violence

The first state to secede from the Union was

• Canada
• North Carolina
• Arkansas
• South Carolina

An arsenal where John Brown began and ended his plan to create a slave revolt in the South in 1859

• Ferryland
• Harpers Ferry
• Seneca Falls
• Washington D.C.

allowed the federal government to arrest any person accused of being a runaway slave, even in free states

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Wilmot Proviso
• The Declaration of Sentiments
• Harper's Ferry

an enslaved person who sued for his freedom after having lived in a free state  

• Roger B. Taney
• Dred Scott
• Stephen Douglass
  John Brown
• Stephen Douglas

Citizens could be jailed or fined for helping runaway slaves because of the

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Democrat Party
• Election of 1852

The result of the Dred Scott decision was that

• slaves are property, not citizens
• slaves are free if living in a free state
• slavery can be outlawed in the territories
• Lincoln became more famous

Which act of Congress added a slave and free state and outlawed slavery in new states North of 36"30' in the Louisiana Territory?

• Compromise of 1850
• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Wilmot Proviso