Causes of the Civil War

Causes of the Civil War

5th - 8th Grade

22 Qs

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Causes of the Civil War

Causes of the Civil War

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

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

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

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

Southern States

Northern States

Hawaii

Great Britain

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

The first state to secede from the Union was

Canada

North Carolina

Arkansas

South Carolina

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

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

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

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

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

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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.

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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 

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