Causes of the Civil War Quiz

1860 elected US president who said a country could not be half free, half slave.

• Stephen Douglas
• John Calhoun
• John Kennedy
• Abraham Lincoln

a term that means leaving or separating is

• secede
• sovereignty
• indentured servant
• arsenal

Slavery taken into free territory, sued for his freedom in supreme court and lost.

• Eli Whitney
• Abe Lincoln
• Dred Scott
• Frederick Douglass

Political party formed to stop the spread of slavery

• Republican

• Abolitionist

• Popular sovereignty

• Democratic

Law passed in 1850 that required citizens to catch runaway slaves and return them to the South; judges earned $10 per slave returned to the South

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Missouri Compromise

• Protective Tariff

• Sectionalism

Belief that it is more important to focus on your area then the nation as a whole.

• Protective Tariff

• Sectionalism

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Why did the South secede?

• They felt slavery was wrong.

• They were afraid that Lincoln would ban slavery their main source of income.

• They didn't want to be a part of the union.

• They never seceded

What was the first Southern state to secede the Union?

• Alabama

• Georgia

• North Carolina

• South Carolina

The idea of states' rights was that:

• states will be able to allow who they want in their state

• states have the right to make their own laws

• states have the right to impeach the President

• states have the right to overthrow cotton

The southern states were trying to nullify, or cancel:

• tariffs on goods such as cotton

• slavery in their states

• tariffs on slaves

• the northern factories