8th grade Causes of the Civil War and Slavery

This man led a raid at Harper's Ferry to show people they could use violence to try and end slavery. 

• Abraham Lincoln
• Jefferson Davis
• Robert E. Lee 
• John Brown

Which one of  the following was NOT a cause to the Civil War?

• Farming
• Slavery
• State's Rights
• Uncle Tom's Cabin

What was the impact of the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

• It created a slave revolt in Kentucky.

• It turned many more people against slavery

• Congress agreed that slavery should be abolished.

• The South became more resolved to secede from the Union.

In what way did the Compromise of 1850 appease the South?

• It created new taxes for railroad construction

• It provided an end to the slave trade in Washington D.C.

• It included a law requiring the return of escaped slaves

• It required the Underground Railway to be disbanded

All of these were reasons the Fugitive Slave Law failed EXCEPT:

• many slaves moved to Canada

• Northerners refused to obey the law

• hounded slave catches returned to the South

• plantation owners did not want returned slaves

How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act nullify the Missouri Compromise?

• It changed the borders of Missouri.

• It required that all of Missouri be free.

• It allowed slavery in new Northern territories.

• It established new interstate trade rules.

Which of these was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• It led to a violent struggle over slavery in Kansas.

• It settled the slavery issue in Nebraska.

• It calmed the country's dispute over slavery.

• It required that the new territories would be free states.

'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other."

Based on his statement, which of these did Lincoln believe?

• all states will become free states

• all states will become slave states

• the United States will not continue to be divided

• the United States will be divided into two countries

What was the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dred Scott case?

• that slavery diminished the national character

• that African American rights were protected by the Constitution

• that African Americans did not have the right to sue in federal court

• that slavery should be abolished by executive order

Which event turned the secession crisis into a civil war?

• the election of Abraham Lincoln

• South Carolina's shelling of Fort Sumter

• John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

• Preston Brook's attack on Charles Sumner