Causes of Civil War

This was a book that was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the evils of slavery. 

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

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

In the Missouri Compromise...

• Maine and California joined the union as free states.

• Missouri and Maine got to choose whether to be slave states or free states.

• Missouri joined the union as a slave state, but Maine was admitted as a free state.

• Arkansas became a slave state

The purpose of John Brown's raid was to....

• steal supplies and sell them for money
• get his name in the local newspapers
• start a slave revolt
• get the 13th amendment passed

What caused Southern States to secede from the Union?

• The Election of Lincoln in 1860
• The Dred Scott Decision
• Harper's Ferry
• Bleeding Kansas

What was the idea of states' rights?

• The states have to listen and obey to all federal laws.

• The federal government makes the laws for all the states.

• States having the right to reject each other.

• Each state would get to make their own laws.

What did the Missouri Compromise do?

• Helped keep slavery out of the Louisiana Purchase

• Divided the Louisiana Purchase between slave and free states

• Helped keep slavery in all states in the Louisiana Purchase

• Helped people move to Missouri

What did the Supreme Court say in their Dred Scott decision?

• They freed the slaves

• They said that African Americans could never be US citizens

• They said that all slaves were citizens but still slaves

• They said that freed slaves could become US citizens

Who were abolitionists?

• People who were politicians

• People who liked slavery

• People who were actively against slavery

• People who were not US citizens

This law created the Mason Dixon line.

• Missouri Compromise
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Case