Civil War Causes 2019

What is the main effect of Eli Whitney's cotton gin?

• It reduced global demand for cotton and le US farmers to grow other crops

• It made it possible to produce clothing by machine and led to the building of textile factories throughout the southern US

• It allowed people to grow cotton in the western territories

• It allowed cotton to be processed more quickly and profitably and led to the expansion of slavery in the southern US

Which statement best describes how the economic systems of the North and South rely on each other?

• The North grew the food that the Southern slaves ate

• The South produced the iron used to build the Northern railroads

• The South grew the cotton and the North turned it into fabric in their factories

• The North sent the skilled laborers and immigrants to the South to help build its railroads and plantations

The Missouri Compromise (1820), the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) were all efforts to

• end fighting between mid-western farmers and Native Americans

• encourage manufacturing in the West

• increase the number of people who voted in presidential elections

• settle disputes over the spread of slavery to western territories

This poster from the 1850s appeared in response to the

• start of the Civil War

• issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation

• passage of the Fugitive Slave law

• enactment of the 13th Amendment

Examine the drawing and reply to the statement that follows:

The law that allowed events like this to occur was passed primarily as a response to

• Southern anger over the admission of California to the Union as a free state

• Northern anger over the scenes depicted in the book Uncle Tom's Cabin

• the controversy over whether to admit Missouri to the Union as a slave state

• Southern outrage over the success of the Underground Railroad

Which part of the Compromise of 1850 created the most controversy?

• the admission of California as a free state

• the organization of New Mexico and Utah as territories open to slavery

• the ending of the slave trade in Washington, D.C.

• the passage of a strong fugitive slave law to return runaway slaves to their owners

What was the purpose of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• to admit Kansas as a free state and Nebraska as a slave state

• to allow the citizens to decide if a state would be a free state or a slave state

• to allow border ruffians to vote in Kansas elections to promote slavery

• to negotiate a deal for territory with Native Americans in Oklahoma

One outcome of the Kansas-Nebraska was:

• The act stated Kansas would be a slave state and Nebraska would be a free state.

• The act stated that Nebraska would be a slave state and Kansas would be a free state.

• Citizens of western territories were allowed to vote for the slave laws of their region.

• The act stated that both Kansas and Nebraska would be slave states.

Which side in the slavery debate lost territory because of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?

• the Federalist side

• the Anti-Federalist side

• the pro-slavery side

• the anti-slavery side

How was "the Civil War in Kansas" related to the dispute over the westward expansion of slavery?

• The first battle of the Civil War was fought in Bleeding Kansas.

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act abolished slavery in all of the western territories.

• The armed conflict between anti-slavery and pro-slavery groups in Kansas led to bloodshed.

• The voters in Kansas would decide whether or not slavery would be allowed in the state.