Causes of the Civil War

Draw in and label the Confederate and Union States

What was the biggest cause of the Civil War?

• A fight over money

• A fight over taking land from Native Americans

• A fight over to have or not have slavery

• A fight over state's rights to make their own laws.

How did the economic differences partly cause the Civil War?

• Southern farmers did not like taxes that help Northern factory owners.

• Southern farmers wanted to raise taxes on Northerners.

• Northerners wanted to have slaves too.

• Economics was not a part cause.

When was the Civil War?

• 1787-1783

• 1942-1945

• 1914-1918

• 1861-1865

Who was the President of the Union during the Civil War?

• George Washington

• Abraham Lincoln

• Thomas Jefferson

• Jefferson Davis

What is the name for when part of a country wants to leave and start a new country?

• State's Rights

• Slavery

• Secession

• Sectionalism

The idea that part of country is more important than the country as a whole

• Secession

• State's Rights

• Bleeding Kansas

• Sectionalism

Fight in the state of Kansas between people that wanted slavery and people that did not. The US said people there would vote to have or not have slavery. This caused a lot of violence between people wanted slavery or did not want it.

• State's Rights

• Bleeding Kansas

• The Missouri Compromise

• Secession

What was the Missouri Compromise?

• A plan for Kansas to start a fight over slavery.

• A plan to have Missouri become a slave state and Maine join the US as a free state. This made 12 slave states and 12 free states.

• A plan the South had to state a new country.

• A plan to move the Cherokee on a 1200 mile walk to Oklahoma.

What were the states with and without slavery called?

• Slave states and free states

• Sad states and happy states

• Good states and bad states

• Blue states and red states