Causes of the Civil War Quiz

What was the name of the new country that the southerners formed???

• The United States of the South

• The Republic of the Southerners

• The Confederate States of America

• The Republic of The Slave Supporters

People who believed that slavery was wrong and tried to stop it

• abolitionists 
• habeas corpus
• state's rights
• secede

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

• Southern States

• The Republic of the Congo

• Hawaii

• Great Britain

Which of the issues below was NOT a cause of the Civil War?

• State's Rights

• Election of 1860 results

• Westward Expansion and the legality of slavery in the territories

• Set up of the federal government

What WAS a reason that the South left the Union?

• Abraham Lincoln's election

• Taxes

• The Boston Tea Party

• Just because

This cause was both a political and moral issue and led to additional causes of the war.

• Secession
• Slavery
• Sectionalism

The North was industrial or manufacturing, and the South was

• Agricultural
• Architectural
• Astrological

The election of _____________ led the South to secede because they believed the Republicans would end their way of life.

• Jefferson Davis
• Abraham Lincoln
• Thomas Jefferson

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

• Southern States

• Northern States

• Hawaii

• Great Britain

Someone running away from their owner (slave) or from the law

• fugitive 
• slave state
• free state
• state's rights