Causes of the Civil War

The Dred Scott Decision (1857) of the US Supreme Court set the stage for what two major causes of the Civil War?

• Slavery and states’ rights

• Taxation and free trade

• Temperance and slavery

• Sectionalism and tariffs

Which of the following was not a contributing factor to the Civil War?

• State’s rights to secede

• Continuation of slavery in the South

• Economic differences between North and South states

• Division within the Republican Party in the 1860 election

His election in 1860 pushed southern states to secede from the Union.

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert Garcia

• Abraham Lincoln

• Daniel Webster

What was the significance of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

• Abolished slavery

• Established free schools

• Inspired the American Revolution

• Balanced free and slave states

Passed in 1850, The Fugitive Slave Act allowed southerners to —

• Recapture their runaway slaves

• Expel Native Americans west

• Boost plantation system

• Free enslaved persons

This book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, exposed the evils and immoralities of slavery —

• Scarlet Letter

• The Outsider

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• The Liberator

Which region will find this cartoon offensive?

• South

• North

• West

• East

This law overturned the Missouri Compromise —

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Stamp Act

• Quartering Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

What was one major impact of this novel?

• The profits from book sales funded early labor organizations.

• Congress was inspired to pass laws outlawing the abuse of slaves.

• The Supreme Court overturned fugitive slave laws.

• Support grew for the abolitionist movement.

Which of the following reversed the Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford?

• The Dawes Act

• The Fourteenth Amendment

• The Compromise of 1877

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act