CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR

Which Supreme Court case would have had the BIGGEST impact on slaves in the United States?

• Marbury v. Madison (1803)
• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
• McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
• Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

Which of these inventions resulted in Southern farmers buying slaves in record numbers?

• cotton gin
• assembly line
• steam engine
• spinning jenny

A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Dred Scott Case
• Compromise of 1850
• Georgia Platform

The North was becoming an economy based on ____.

• farming
• industry
• music

The Southern economy was based on

• industry
• agriculture
• politics

Who believed States Rights meant not following Federal laws you didn't agree with?

• The North 
• The South 

Who hated the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• The North 
• The South 

Who was so upset at the election of Lincoln on 1860 that they began seceding from the United States?

• The North 
• The South 

Which of the following is the definition of an abolitionist?

• A large farm that used slave labor for cultivation of cash crops 
• Being more concerned with a region of the country rather than the country as a whole 
• a person who wants to end slavery 
• The beginning of the Civil War 

Which of the following is the definition of sectionalism?

• A large farm that used slave labor for cultivation of cash crops 
• Being more concerned with a region of the country rather than the country as a whole 
• a person who wants to end slavery 
• The beginning of the Civil War