Causes of the Civil War

What were abolitionists?

• People who held protests and rallies against slavery.

• White people, free black people, men and women.

• People who wanted to end slavery for everyone, everywhere.

• All of the above.

Why did the South argue they needed slaves?

• They had many factories for slaves to work in.

• They felt they were needed because of agriculture.

• They did not have people to hunt animals.

• They needed more people in government.

What was the Fugitive Slave Act?

• People must return escaped slaves to the North.

• People must return escaped slaves to their owners in the South.

• States could decide if they wanted to be a free state or a slave state.

• No one North of the Fugitive Slave Act line could have slaves.

What was the Underground Railroad and who was one of the most important conductors?

Congress argued over which territories would have _______.

• Representation in Congress.

• Factories

• Plantations

• Slavery

The Fugitive Slave Act upset many _________ and they refused to follow it which then upset the _________ because they wanted their slaves back.

• Northerners, Southerners

• Southerners, Northerners

• Southerners, Slaves

• Northerners, Free Blacks

What was Uncle Tom's Cabin about?

• A book about why slavery is needed in the South.

• A book about how children lived in the North.

• A book about how to live and take care of a cabin in the woods.

• A book about the true cruelty of slavery.

Who was John Brown and what did he do?

• He was an abolitionist who traveled around giving speeches and holding rallies for slavery.

• He was an abolitionist who organized an attack on an arsenal in the North to get weapons for slaves to revolt.

• He was the vice president at the time and best friends with Abraham Lincoln.

• He was a free black man who tried to sell weapons at cheap prices for slaves to revolt against their owners.

Compare and contrast the North and the South.

Which law put the Fugitive Slave Act in action?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act