Causes of the Civil War CFA

The Compromise of 1850 allowed certain territories to use their political power and VOTE whether or not they would allow slavery in their state. What was this power called?

• Sectionalism

• State's Rights

• Popular Sovereignty

• Secession

Which of the following statements about the sides in the Civil War is correct?

• Union: South

  Confederacy: North

• Union: South

  Confederacy: West

• Union: West

  Confederacy: South

• Union: North

  Confederacy: South

Showing loyalty to a certain region or section rather than the whole country is known as:

• States' Rights

• Secede

• Sharecropper

• Sectionalism

Which was a cause of the Civil War?

• Slavery

• State's Rights

• Sectionalism

• All of the above

1) The Kansas-Nebraska Act

2) The Missouri Compromise

3) The Compromise of 1850

What did the above 3 acts address?

• Whether or not the U.S. should expand Westward.

• Whether or not Slavery should be allowed in the U.S.

• If the U.S. should go to War with Mexico.

• If the U.S. should grow more Cotton & Wheat.

The first state to secede from the Union was

• Canada

• North Carolina

• Arkansas

• South Carolina

What do you call a person who was opposed to slavery and worked toward ending it?

• Fugitive

• Abolitionist

• Secessionist

• Whig

This slave led a rebellion in Virginia that killed at least 60 people

• John Brown

• Stephen Douglas

• Nat Turner

• Frederick Douglass

California would enter the union as a free state and a Fugitive Slave Law dealing with runaway slaves was part of the _______?

• Compromise of 1850

• The Missouri Compromise

• Dred Scott case

• Slave codes

This abolitionist took part in "Bleeding Kansas" and led a raid on Harper's Ferry, VA

• Dred Scott

• Jefferson Davis

• John Brown

• Abraham Lincoln