Causes of the Civil War

States in the South believed

• They should have more representatives in Congress

• They were better

• They should have the right to decide their own laws

• They were French

Who threatened to leave the Union after President Lincoln was elected?

• Southern States

• Northern States

• Hawaii

• Great Britain

The first state to secede from the Union was

• Canada

• North Carolina

• Arkansas

• South Carolina

an enslaved person who sued for his freedom after having lived in a free state  

• Roger B. Taney
• Dred Scott
• Stephen Douglass
  John Brown
• Stephen Douglas

Citizens could be jailed or fined for helping runaway slaves because of the

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Democrat Party
• Election of 1852

Popular Sovereignty was the idea that

• slavery would be banned in all future states.

• the government would decide if slavery would be legal or illegal.

• the people would vote to decide if their state would have slavery.

• slavery would be allowed in every future state.

What was the key issue that was debated each time a new state was admitted to the Union before the Civil War?

• the expansion of slavery
• the building of railroads 
• the provision of women's suffrage
• support for the homesteading 

What was the Underground Railroad?

• A train that took people to freedom.

• A tunnel where people could buy slaves.

• A group of people who helped slaves escape to freedom.

• A home where Harriet Tubman grew up.

This law created the Mason Dixon line.

• Missouri Compromise
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Case

This law said Americans could vote if their state should be free or have slaves.

• Missouri Compromise
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Case