Causes of the Civil War

This upset the balance between slave and free states and enacted the Fugitive Slave Law/Act.

• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas Nebraska Act
• Compromise of 1850
• Dred Scot Decision

The North wanted _______tariffs because they did not want the South to keep importing foreign goods.

• low

• high

Which is a benefit for the NORTH, thanks to the Compromise of 1850?

• California was admitted to the Union

• Slave owners in Washington D.C. were able to keep their slaves.

• The Fugitive Slave Law was enacted.

• Texas eventually became a slave state.

This law created the Mason Dixon line.

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

Where did most Southerners live in the 1850s?

• cities
• large towns
• farms
• up North

Where were most of the cities in the 1850s?

• North
• South
• East
• West

What was the North's point of view on slavery in the 1850s?

• They had outlawed slavery
• They were pro-slavery.
• The hired slaves as workers.
• Slavery was used for farming.

What did slaves use to escape to Freedom?

• The Anaconda Plan
• The Oregon Trail
• The Union Express Railroad
• The Underground Railroad

Who became the president in the election of 1860?

• Ulysses S. Grant
• Abraham Lincoln
• Thomas Jefferson
• James Madison

True or False: The South wanted state's rights for their government.

• True

• False