Causes of the Civil war Review(Texas)

What is an abolitionist?

• Someone who wants to abolish or end slavery.
• Someone who wants to end voting for slaves.
• Someone who doesn't want to work with slaves.
• Someone who wants to never wear jeans.

Where were most of the cities in the 1850s?

• North
• South
• East
• West

People who fought against slavery are called

• Missionaries
• Abolitionists
• Morning people
• Night owls

What did slaves use to escape to Freedom?

• The Anaconda Plan
• The Oregon Trail
• The Union Express Railroad
• The Underground Railroad

Believing that your section of the country is more important than the rest of the country is...

• partisanship
• Civil War
• sectionalism
• treason

Who became the president in the election of 1860?

• Ulysses S. Grant
• Abraham Lincoln
• Thomas Jefferson
• James Madison

The section of the country had more factories and railroads.

• North 
• South

Secede means to.....

• join
• get rid of
• come together
• seperate

The Missouri Compromise, the compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were all efforts to

• end fighting between Midwestern farmers and native American Indians

• increase the number of people who voted in presidential elections

• encourage manufacturing in the west

• settle disputes over the spread of slavery to the western territories

What caused Southern States to secede from the Union?

• The Election of Lincoln in 1860
• The Dred Scott Decision
• Harper's Ferry
• Bleeding Kansas