Civil War Causes

Before the Civil War, The South was:

• Pro-Slavery
• Anti-Slavery
• The Union
• More populated than North

This act allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state, and Maine as a free state. It drew a boundary line to separate northern free states and southern slave states.

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Missouri Compromise 1820

This legislation brought California in as a free state, and also created Utah and New Mexico. The Fugitive Slave Act was included in this legislation, as well:

• Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scott Decision

• Fugitive Slave Law

This was a Novel that showed how evil slavery was.  It helped the anti-slavery movement grow stronger

• Of Mice and Men
• Fugitives
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Life of a Slave

Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by:

• Harriet Tubman
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Dred Scott
• John Brown

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This slave was taken to the North, but told he could still not be free (even in a free state)

• Harriet Tubman
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Frederick Douglas
• Dred Scott

In the Dred Scott decision, it was decided that:

• African Americans can not be citizens
• There cannot be slaves in free states
• Slavery is illegal
• Maine would be free, Missouri would be slave state

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Who won the Election of 1860?

• Ulysses S Grant
• Jefferson Davis
• Abraham Lincoln
• Uncle Tom

After Lincoln was elected:

• Southern states were happy
• Northern states hated him
• He began to establish more slave states
• Southern states began to secede

A person who wanted to end slavery

• Secession
• Abolitionist
• Fugitive
• Southerner

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