Civil War Causes

This law said Americans could ^_NOT help runaway slaves.

• Missouri Compromise
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Case

This event said Congress could not prohibit (stop) slavery anywhere in the United States.

• Missouri Compromise
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Case

States in the South believed:

• They should have more representatives in Congress than the Northern states.

• That all territories in America should NOT be allowed to vote on the issue of slavery.

• That State's Rights should have more political power than the Federal Government.

• The Southern senators should be allowed to create bills without approval from their State Governments.

Who threatened to leave the Union after President Lincoln was elected as President in 1860?

• Southern States

• Northern States

• Western Territories

• Great Britain

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

When was the Civil War? (Hint: It began when Texas joined the Confederacy)

• 1861-176

• 1861-1865

• 1870-1876

• 2015-2019

States in the South believed

• They should have more representatives in Congress

• They were better

• They should have the right to decide their own laws

• They were French

Who threatened to leave the Union after President Lincoln was elected?

• Southern States

• Northern States

• Hawaii

• Great Britain

an enslaved person who sued for his freedom after having lived in a free state  

• Roger B. Taney
• Dred Scott
• Stephen Douglass
  John Brown
• Stephen Douglas