Causes of the Civil War

The Missouri Compromise tried to maintain the balance between slave states and free states.

• True

• False

Which of these were punishments for breaking the Fugitive Slave Law?

• $1000 fine

• 6 months in prison

• 12 months in prison

• death

Match the words with the correct definition.

• popular sovereignty

• to formally discuss an issue

• debate

• a person who has escaped from a place or is in hiding, especially to avoid arrest

• compromise

• a war between opposing groups of citizens from the same country

• fugitive

• an agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions

• civil war

• the idea that the people in a territory should vote to allow slavery

Who was a violent opponent of slavery?

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Brown

• Frederick Douglass

• John C Calhoun

What was the main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?

• admission of Illinois to the Union

• economic issues

• slavery

• war with Mexico

In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court ruled that

• slaves could never become citizens

• Dred Scott must be freed

• black people were property

• human beings were not property

The Supreme Court’s ruling in​ Dred Scott v Sanford said that slavery could not be banned because the ​ (a)   protects people's property.

• 5th Amendment
• 6th Amendment
• 10th Amendment
• 4th Amendment

Which of these introduced the idea of popular sovereignty?

• “Bleeding Kansas”

• John Brown

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

​ (a)   was the first state to vote to secede from the Union.

• South Carolina
• Georgia
• New York
• Tennessee

Even though his name was not on the ballot in most Southern states, (a)   won the election of 1860.

• Abraham Lincoln
• John Bell
• Stephen Douglas
• John Breckenridge