Civil War Causes

Which of the following were the two main causes of the Civil War?

• Attacks by Spain and Salvery

• Slavery and States' Rights

• Land and Money

• New laws and Land

States that seceded the Union called themselves _________________________.

• The Border States of America

• The Seceding States of America

• The Confederate States of America

• New American States

The economy in the south relied heavily on ______________.

• Industry

• Hunting

• Gold

• Farming

The economy in the North relied heavily on ______________.

• Industry (Factories)

• Farming

• Gold

• Slave Labor

John Brown, Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe were all well known _________________________.

• Presidents

• Abolitionist

• Plantation Owners

• Inventors

Following the Kansas- Nebraska Act, Kansas entered the U.S as a ________________.

• Slave State

• Free State

• Undeclared State

True or False: Abraham Lincoln was Republican and against Slavery.

• True

• False

Which best explains a Border State during this time

• States that were anti slavery but chose to join the Confederate States of America

• States that were Pro Slavery but stayed with the Union.

• All the States that were on the outskirts of the U.S

• States that bordered other countries

In 1850, California was admitted into the Union as a ___________ state.

• Free

• Slave

• Half Free, Half Slave

What best explains a Compromise?

• A law created by Congress

• officially ends a war

• an agreement

• All of the above