Causes of the Civil War

What issue was dividing the nation in the 1800s?

• westward expansion

• environmental issues

• slavery

Which is true of the northern United States?

• depended on cash crop farming

• anti-slavery

• few railroads

• supported slavery

Under this law, the government was trying to keep a balance of slave and free states by admitting Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.

• Kansas -Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

Under this law, California entered the union as a free state and the South got the Fugitive Slave Law.

• Great Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

What was the big question addressed by these laws?

• Should the U.S. expand west?

• Should states have the right to nullify federal laws?

• Should slavery expand into new states?

Which correctly describes the effect of the Compromise of 1850 on runaway slaves and freedmen?

• Members of both groups were captured under the Fugitive Slave Law.

• Members of both groups could be sold in Washington, D.C. slave markets.

• Unlike escaped slaves, freedmen could vote in the territories of the Mexican Cession.

Which of the following was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

• Fighting broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in Texas.

• Kansas entered the union as a slave state.

• Nebraskan settlers who supported the abolition of slavery moved to Kansas.

Which region's primary economic activity in the 1860's was cotton?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

In the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford, the court stated that...

• Dred Scott should be a free man

• African -Americans were not citizens

• Missouri Compromise was a valid law

• Slavery should be abolished

Which political party formed to oppose the spread of slavery in the mid 1800s?

• the Democratic party

• the Whig party

• the Republican party

• the Know-Nothing party