4/17/2020 Remote Learning - Causes of the Civil War

Which of these was the movement in the United States to end the slave trade and free slaves?

•  the abolitionist movement 
• the suffrage movement
• the states' rights movement 
• the environmental justice movement

Which piece of legislation stated that Slavery was banned north of the 36’30° and allowed it south of the line?

• Compromise of 1850 
• 3/5 Compromise
• Missouri Compromise 
• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

Why was slavery an important part of the Southern economy?

• Plantation owners needed slaves to cook their meals.
• The land in the South provided farmers with good soil to grow cash crops but the land was so large that plantation owners needed more hands to work the land.
• Factories began to spread and there was a greater need for free labor.
• White indentured servants wanted more money. 

What piece of legislation included all of the following?
o  All citizens were required to report runaway slaves o  Anyone caught helping runaway slaves would be fined or jailed
o  Slaves had no right to jury trial
o  Anyone sending runaway slaves back to their owners would receive cash payment

• The Missouri Compromise of 1820
• the Wilmot Proviso of 1846
• the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
• the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

Identify the Supreme Court case that angered northerners because it said that slavery could exist anywhere in the United States based on the idea that slaves were “property.”

• Marbury v. Madison
• Dred Scott Decision
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Brown v. The Board of Education

Illustrated the horrors of slavery; abolitionists in the north became enraged and dedicated to outlawing the practice. 

• Compromise of 1850
• Dred Scott Decision
• Lincoln-Douglas Debates
• Uncle Tom's Cabin

This law said Americans could ^_NOT help runaway slaves.

• Missouri Compromise
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Case

A result of Abraham Lincoln winning the 1860 presidential election was:

• 7 southern states seceded to form the Confederacy
• President Buchanan threatened to invade South Carolina
• Senator Sumner was beaten on the Senate floor
• the border states sided with the Confederacy

Harriett Tubman is important to the Sectionalism Era because she did this:

• led slaves from the South to safety in the North on the Underground Railroad.
• escaped slavery & became a speaker & writer for the abolitionist movement
• was known as the Great Compromiser
• wrote Uncle Tom's cabin-a book about the evils of slavery

This term means people vote on an issue: 

• republicanism
• checks and balances
• popular sovereignty
• separation of powers