Causes of the Civil War

Causes of the Civil War

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Causes of the Civil War

Causes of the Civil War

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Dred Scott was a slave who

Sued for his freedom

Led a slave revolt

Wrote a popular slave narrative

Served as an advisor to Lincoln

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

John Brown led a failed raid on

Fort Sumter

The White House

Gettysburg

Harper's Ferry

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Dred Scott was famous for ___________.

being sued by someone else

being in the military

suing for his freedom

being a famous doctor

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

What caused Southern States to secede from the Union?

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

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

South Carolina seceded from the Union after -

a major tax increase from the federal government

the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the USA

Lincoln freeing all enslaved African Americans in the South

Charleston's port being blockaded by the Lincoln

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

According to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, what would decide whether the territories became free or slave?

popular sovereignty
the 36'30" parallel
one would be a slave state, the other a free state
Rock, Paper, Scissors

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case?

That Congress did not have the right to ban slavery.
That the Missouri Compromise 36'30" line technically freed Dred Scott.
That slavery should be banned everywhere
That African American rights were protected by the Constitution.

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