Causes of the Civil War

What did the Wilmot Proviso call for?

• Wilmot Proviso called for a peace treaty to end the Mexican-American War.

• Wilmot Proviso called for all lands from Mexico to be handed over to the United States.

• Wilmot Proviso called for any land acquired (taken over) by the U.S. from Mexico to be free of slavery.

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According to the Kansas - Nebraska Act, the slavery issue would be settled by -

• constitutional amendment
• popular sovereignty
• state legislatures
• federal courts

The _________________ allowed California to be admitted to the Union as a free state .

• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• California Compromise
• Great Compromise

Which compromise created a line at latitude 36 30, where states north of the line couldn't have slaves and the states south of the line could?

• Missouri Compromise
• California Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Great Compromise

Which 2 compromises below helped to keep the peace and delay the Civil War from happening sooner?

• Kansas - Nebraska Act and the Missouri Compromise
  
• Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850
  
• Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas - Nebraska Act
• Southwest Compromise and Maine Compromise
  

States' rights was an issue that caused Civil War because

• States wanted to secede from the Union

• States wanted equal representation in the House of Representatives

• States wanted to pass an amendment to abolish slavery

Check all that would be considered a cause of the Civil War

• Slavery

• Sectionalism (differences in the economies of the north and south)

• States' rights

• Conscription

Lincoln's opinion differed from the Douglas in the debates over slavery because

• Lincoln opposed the extension of slavery

• Douglas opposed the extension of slavery

What law inspired Stowe to write the book?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Dawes Act
• Lincoln-Douglas Act

What did Uncle Tom’s Cabin convince the North of?

• That it was ok to own a slave

• That you shouldn’t have more than two slaves

• That Uncle Tom had a nice cabin

• That slavery was wrong