Causes of the Civil War

Which state was created as a result of the Missouri Compromise?

• Maine

• Kansas

• California

• Texas

What created sectionalism because it divided the country into slave and free states with a line?

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Nullification Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

What was used in the Dred Scott case to prove that slavery was protected by the Constitution?

• 5th Amendment

• Missouri Compromise

• 10th Amendment

• 1st Amendment

Which was the first state to leave the Union?

• South Carolina

• North Carolina

• Georgia

• Virginia

Who was president of the new country called the Confederate States of America?

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

• Stephen Douglas

• John Brown

How did the South use the theory of states' rights to justify their secession?

• the North blockaded Southern ports so they felt threatened

• the South felt their rights were violdated so they could leave

• the North did not support slavery

• the South wanted to be left alone

What gave people in a territory, like Kansas, the option of deciding if they wanted slavery?

• popular sovereignty

• sectionalism

• states' rights

• secession rights

What political party said slavery could stay where it was but it couldn't expand?

• Republican Party

• Free-Soil Party

• Democratic Party

• Whig Party

Which of the following was NOT an abolitionist?

• Frederick Douglass

• Abraham Lincoln

• Sojourner Truth

• William Lloyd Garrison

What was the network of houses and people who helped slaves escape north to freedom?

• Underground Railroad

• Missouri Compromise

• Fugitive Slave Act

• American Colonization Society