Causes of the Civil War

In the North, there were many what?

• factories

• plantations

• railroads

• cotton fields

Which of these is not a cause of the civil war?

• slavery

• sectionalism

• election of Lincoln

• taxes on stamps

The south was full of lush land and (a)   that depended on slaves.

What is secession?

• The withdrawal of troops from enemy territory?

• The withdrawal of a group from a large entity, especially a state

• the invasion of enemy territory

• The acquisition of territory to form a new state

The ________ wanted to abolish (eliminate slavery), whereas the _________ wanted to keep slavery.

(a)  

Why did the election of Lincoln anger the South?

• He supported slavery

• He wanted to prevent the expansion of slavery

• He wanted to give slaves equal rights

• He wanted to Tax Southern slave owners

Slavery was abolished in 1865 by the passing of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.

Abolish means...

• to separate

• to agree

• to establish

• to end

(a)   was the main cause of the Civil War

What was the Missouri Compromise?

• it established a boundary between FREE and SLAVE states

• Slave owners had to release their slaves

• The North states became slave states

• California became a free slave.

In the election of 1860 the North preferred Lincoln. the South preferred

• Lincoln

• Stephen Douglass

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson