Civil War Causes People Quiz

1860 elected US president who said a country could not be half free, half slave.

• Stephen Douglas
• John Calhoun
• John Kennedy
• Abraham Lincoln

Know as the "Great Compromiser" proposed the Compromise of 1850.

• Abe Lincoln
• John Calhoun
• Henry Clay
• William Lloyd Garrison

A hater of slavery, he published the ant-slavery newspaper called "The Liberator".

• Abe Lincoln
• John Calhoun
• Henry Clay
• William Lloyd Garrison

South Carolina senator who believed in "States' Rights", saying states shouldn't have to follow a federal law if they don't agree with it.

• Abe Lincoln
• John Calhoun
• Henry Clay
• William Lloyd Garrison

Famously debated with Abe Lincoln in 1858 over Senator of Illinois, regarding the issue of slavery. He believed in popular sovereignty.

• Stephen Douglas
• John Calhoun
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• William Lloyd Garrison

Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" which explains the horrors of slavery.

• John Brown
• John Calhoun
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• William Lloyd Garrison

in 1859, he led an attack at Harper's Ferry Arsenal to get guns to arm slaves to kill their owners.  He was caught and hanged.

• John Brown
• John Calhoun
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• William Lloyd Garrison

The term that refers to ending slavery is

• abolition
• sovereignty
• indentured servant
• arsenal

a term that means leaving or separating is

• secede
• sovereignty
• indentured servant
• arsenal

The right for a state to vote on an issue themselves, such as about slavery.

• Slave Codes

• liberty

• secession

• popular sovereignty