Causes of the Civil War

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

John Brown led a failed raid on

• Fort Sumter

• The White House

• Gettysburg

• Harper's Ferry

Dred Scott was famous for ___________.

• being sued by someone else

• being in the military

• suing for his freedom

• being a famous doctor

What caused Southern States to secede from the Union?

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

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

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

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.

What caused Southern States to secede from the Union?

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

The Dred Scott case made which pre Civil War compromise unconstitutional?

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Great Compromise

• The 3/5th Compromise

• The Missouri Compromise

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Harriet Tubman
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• John Brown
• William Lloyd Garrison