TCI Lesson 20: The Causes of the Civil War

A strong concern and attachment for local interests instead of those of the country.

• abolitionist

• secede

• sectionalism

• confederacy

The United States as one country; during the Civil War, the government and the armies of the states that chose to remain a part of the U.S.

• Slave State

• Free State

• Union

• Confederacy

A state in which it was legal to own slaves.

• Slave State

• Free State

• Union

• Confederacy

A state in which it was not legal to own slaves.

• Slave State

• Free State

• Union

• Confederacy

The nation formed by 11 states in 1860 after Lincoln was elected.

• Slave State

• Free State

• Union

• Confederacy

A person who wanted to end slavery.

• Confederate

• Abolitionist

• Patriot

• Loyalist

A system in which abolitionists secretly helped escaping slaves reach freedom.

• Overland Trail

• Oregon Trail

• Underground Trail

• Underground Railroad

How many train engines pulled the Underground Railroad?

• 0

• 1

• 2

• 3

What happened to mark the beginning of the Civil War?

• Southern states started using slaves to work the plantation crops like cotton and tobacco.

• Northern states started having lots of industry and factories

• The election of Republican, Abraham Lincoln in 1860

• The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina

To officially withdraw from a government or a country.

• rebel

• secede

• civil war

• remove