Causes of the Civil War

What is popular sovereignty?

• an agreement reached between two sides where both sides have to give something up
• A person who works to end slavery
• A vote where people decide on an issue.
• A person who has gone against or broken the law and is on the loose.

What does secede mean?

• The belief that your part of the country is the BEST.  You put your part of the country's needs in front of what is best for the WHOLE nation.
• A warehouse that stores guns and ammunition
• A person who is willing to die for their beliefs.
• To remove or break away as the Southern states did from the Union.

What compromise established the 36' 30" line?

• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas- Nebraska Act

What compromise allows for popular sovereignty in the area acquired from Mexico?

• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

What compromise abandons the Missouri Compromise?

• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

What do all of the compromises have in common?

• They are all treaties with foreign countries.
• They deal with deciding if land will be free or slave.
• They are battles in the Civil War.
• They all result in violent conflicts.

What pro-slavery event ruled that slaves were property and not citizens?

• Wilmot Proviso
• Free-Soil Party
• Dred Scott Decision
• Uncle Tom's Cabin

What pro-slavery event required citizens to catch runaway slaves?

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Wilmot Proviso
• Free Soil Party

What anti-slavery novel wrote about the evils of slavery?

• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Wilmot Proviso
• Dred Scott Decision
• Free Soil Party

What candidate does the North support in the 1860 election?

• Douglass
• Lincoln