Causes of the Civil War

What events increased tension between the North and the South before the American Civil War?(Multiple Answers)

• Compromise of 1850

• Bleeding Kansas

• War of 1812

• John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry

What was the first engagement that formally started the Civil War?

• Battle of Gettysburg

• Battle of Antietam

• First Battle of Bull Run

• Battle of Fort Sumter

Which state seceded first?

• Virginia

• Georgia

• South Carolina

• Maryland

Why was the Dred Scott case so important?(Multiple Answers)

• It made California a free state

• It said that all African Americans, free or enslaved, were not citizens

• It said that it was unconstitutional to ban slavery in any of the states

• It reinstated the Missouri Compromise line

Who was elected president of the United States that made Southern states secede?

• Jefferson Davis

• Stephen Douglas

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Brown

What compromise made Missouri a slave state, Maine a free state, and divided the country between the free and enslaved, on the 36th parallel?

• The Crittenden Compromise

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Missouri Compromise

What was the compromise that allowled enslavers from the South come to the North to capture runaway enslaved?

• Black Codes

• The Fugitve Slave Act

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Dred Scott Act

Which of these were NOT a part of the Compromise of 1850?

• The Mexican Cession could decide if they had slavery or not

• The Ban of the Slave Trade in Washington D.C.

• That the Missouri Compromise line was unconstitutional

• The creation of the Fugtive Slave Act

What was the event that had pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces flooding into the territories to affect the voting outcome of if a territory became a free or enslaved state that resulted in violence between the two?

• Bleeding Kansas

• The raid on Harpers Ferry

• Mexican-American War

• The US Civil War

What did the publishing of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" do?

• Created a compromise between the North and the South

• Showed that Southern enslavers were kind to the enslaved

• That slavery was actually helpful to American society

• Showed the horrors of slavery, spreading awareness to the North