Causes of Secession

What state is Fort Sumter located in?

• North Carolina

• Virginia

• Texas

• South Carolina

Which of the states listed below was part of the first 7 states of secede?

• Texas

• Virginia

• North Carolina

• Tennessee

How did the geography of the Southern states affect their economies?

• rocky land in the Appalachian Mountains caused more industry and factories

• rocky land in the Appalachian Mountains caused more large cities

• Fertile land in the Coastal Plain created many farms and plantations to grow cotton

• fertile land in the Coastal Plain created dairy farmland

What was the first state to secede from the Union?

• Mississippi

• Texas

• South Carolina

• Virginia

Which of the states listed below was among the last 4 to secede after the attack on Fort Sumter?

• Virginia

• Florida

• Mississippi

• Georgia

What did the 11 stars on the Confederate States of America flag represent?

• the 11 reasons why the Southern states seceded

• the 11 Southern generals that fought in the Civil War

• the 11 states that seceded to form the country

• the 11 soldiers that died at Fort Sumter

What is popular sovereignty?

• the law that said states south of Missouri had to be slave states

• a principle that allowed new states to decide if they would be a free or a slave state

• a principle that states could not secede

What Compromise resulted in the number of free and slave states being even?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

What did many southerners believe about the Constitution?

• federal laws held more power than state laws

• states could declare any federal law illegal

• state laws and federal laws were equally important

What law allowed the residents of the Southwest territory (recently won from Mexico) to determine whether they would be become a slave or free state?

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Election of 1860