Causes of the Civil War

What is the word the describes the North and South being very different and wanting very different things?

• Secession

• Sectionalism

• Regionalism

• Economy

What was the purpose of the Missouri Compromise?

• Outlaw Slavery

• Allow Slavery in all part of US

• Create balance between slave and free states

• Create a system of admitting states to the union

What did the 36'30 line represent?

• No slavery allowed above it

• Slavery allowed only above it

• It created a new state of Louisiana Territory

• It added California to the United States

What states were added to the United States in the Missouri Compromise? Were they free or slave?

• Maine-Slave

• Maine-Free

• Missouri-Slave

• Mississippi- Slave

What did the Kansas- Nebraska do?

• Allowed Nebraska and Kansas to be neutral territories with no slaves about slavery

• Admit Nebraska as a free state and Kansas as a slave state

• Admit Kansas as a free state and Nebraska as a slave state

• Allowed People to vote if Kansas and Nebraska were free or slave

How did Southerners view Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Untrue and Unfair

• Accurate

• Exaggerated

What effect did Uncle Tom's Cabin have on Northerners?

• They wanted to outlaw slavery only in the North

• Many didn't read it

• Increased their desire to end slavery

• Changed their minds about slavery- they believed it should be contained where it is

What was the "final straw" that led to Southern states leaving (seceding) the United States

• Dred Scott Case

• Election of 1860

• Bleeding Kansas

• Missouri Compromise

Why did the South dislike Lincoln?

• He wanted to outlaw slavery in the US

• He wanted to contain slavery where it was

• He was proslavery

Lincoln's goal(s) for his presidency was to

• Preserve the union

• Outlaw Slavery

• Allow Slavery to spread throughout the US

• Contain Slavery where it was