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

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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A person who wanted to end slavery

• Secession
• Abolitionist
• Fugitive
• Southerner

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To break away from, or withdraw from something

• Abolish
• Secede
• Repeal
• Compromise

Before the Civil War, the North was:

• Weak
• Anti-Slavery
• Pro-Slavery
• The Confederates

Which statement best describes how the economic systems of the North and South rely on each other?

• The North grew the food that the Southern slaves ate

• The South produced the iron used to build the Northern railroads

• The South grew the cotton and the North turned it into fabric in their factories

• The North sent the skilled laborers and immigrants to the South to help build its railroads and plantations

What is the main effect of Eli Whitney's cotton gin?

• It reduced global demand for cotton and le US farmers to grow other crops

• It made it possible to produce clothing by machine and led to the building of textile factories throughout the southern US

• It allowed people to grow cotton in the western territories

• It allowed cotton to be processed more quickly and profitably and led to the expansion of slavery in the southern US

In the Dred Scott v Sandford decision, the Supreme Court ruled that Scott was

• a citizen of the United States

• a "free man" but not a citizen

• still an enslaved person

• an illegal immigrant

What did the Supreme Court rule in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case?

• Dred Scott was set free since he lived in a free state.

• Dred Scott was property and not a citizen.

• Dred Scott's owners were guilty of holding him against his will and were arrested.

• Dred Scott's owners had to pay Dred Scott for work he completed.