Civil War Causes

Because of Abraham Lincoln’s anti-slavery beliefs, 7 southern states seceded (broke away) from the Union.

• True

• False

_______________ became president of the United States as a result of the 1860 election.

• Donald Trump

• Bill Clinton

• Joe Biden

• Abraham Lincoln

plantation

• factory

• large estate farmed by many workers

• famous conductor on the underground railroad

• person who wanted to end slavery in the US

Who was Harriet Tubman?

• first Woman vice president

• first woman pilot

• famous conductor on the underground railroad

• mother of industrial revolution

As a result of the 1860 election, many southern states seceded (left) the Union.

• True

• False

A network of abolitionists who helped runaway slaves reach freedom in the North or Canada

• underground railroad

• Bleeding Kansas

• federalism

• slavery

What was the book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that exposed the evils of slavery?

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Dred Scott Decision

• The North Star

• John Brown’s Raid (1859)

law requiring northerners to return runaway slaves to their owners

• fugitive slave law

• federalism

• underground railroad

• middle passage

What was sectionalism?

• Book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that exposed the evils of slavery

• a famous conductor on the underground railroad

• division of power between state and federal government

• loyalty to a region of the country rather than the whole country

What was the middle passage?

• loyalty to a region of the country rather than the whole country

• division of power between the states and national government

• long, dangerous voyage enslaved people took from West Africa to the Americas

• war between people of the same country