Causes of the Civil War

Why did the South need slaves, but the North didn't?

• Large plantations in the south needed slave labor to profit.

• The South didn't want slave labor

• Slaves ran the large steel mills and appliance factories in the South

• Slave labor was needed to work the mines in the South

What were people who wanted to outlaw slavery called?

• Southerners

• Federalists

• Prohibitionists

• Abolitionists

What political party did Abraham Lincoln belong to?

• Democrat

• Libertarian

• Independent

• Republican

What was the name of the new country that was formed by the southern states?

• Republic of Texas

• United States of the South

• Democratic Republic of the Carolinas

• Confederate States of America

States have individual rights outside of the ones in the federal government

• state's rights
• sectionalism
• free state
• slave state

Act made it a federal law that all runaway slaves MUST be returned to their owners in the south. 

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Decision
• Compromise of 1850

Runaway slaves used the ______ to escape to the North and freedom.

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Underground Railroad

• Escaped Slave Expressway

• The Ohio River

California would enter the union as a free state and a tough new law dealing with runaway slaves was part of _______?

• Compromise of 1850

• The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• Dred Scott case

• Slave codes

The US Supreme Court decided that this man was still just a slave, even though he had lived in a free territory, setting the stage for slavery to be legal everywhere

• Uncle Tom

• John Brown

• Nat Turner

• Dred Scott

Which of the following is a right of a state not to follow a federal law?

• Nullification

• Abolitionism

• Secession

• Segregation