Causes of Civil War

This compromise admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state, admitted Maine as a free

state to maintain the balance in the Senate, and prohibited slavery north of latitude 36° 30’ in

the Louisiana Purchase territory, with the exception of Missouri:

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Tariff 0f 1828

What was the central point of the Dred Scott decision?

• That slavery was legal only in the South

• That the Kansas-Nebraska Act was illegal

• That the states could not nullify federal laws

• That slaves had no rights anywhere in the United States

These events established Lincoln as a prominent national figure and solidified his

Republican Party’s antislavery platform

• Bleeding Kansas

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Lincoln-Douglas debates

• Nat Turners Rebellion

This compromise includes land acquired from Mexico after the Mexican-American war, the

admission of California to the Union and the Fugitive Slave Act, and it ended the slave trade in

Washington, DC

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Bleeding Kansas

The man who raided the town of Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859 in an attempt to arm slaves

• Abrahama Lincoln

• John Brown

• Jefferson Davis

• Nat Turner

This allowed settlers in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide,

through popular sovereignty, whether they would allow slavery within their borders when they

applied for statehood.

• Missouri Compromise

• Tariff of 1832

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• John Browns raid

What was the Northern Economy based on?

• Farms

• Banks

• Factories

• Education

What was the Southern Economy based on?

• Farming

• Factories

• Banks

• Education

Who was the 16th president of the United States elected on November 6, 1860?

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Brown

• George Bush

What event made the southern states finally decided to secede?

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Election of Abraham Lincoln

• Missouri Compromise

• Dred Scott Decision