Civil War Causes

Missouri entered the US as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It set a free/slave boundary line for future states in western territories

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Missouri Compromise

California joined the US as a free state, Utah and New Mexico got popular sovereignty, and the Fugitive Slave Act increased penalties for helping runaway slaves

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scott Decision

• Jim Crow Laws

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this best-selling, realistic fiction novel to expose the inhumanity of slavery.

• Of Mice and Men

• Fugitives

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Life of a Slave

In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court ruled that

• African Americans are not citizens

• slaves in free states must be freed

• slavery is illegal

• Once a slave, always a slave

Why was the raid on Harpers Ferry important?

• It was a best-selling novel about slavery

• It fueled southern fear of slave rebellions

• It ended the Fugitive Slave Act

• It was the first battle of the Civil War

Which of the following is NOT true about the 1860 election

• Lincoln received NO electoral votes from the South

• The Republican Party wanted to stop the spread of slavery

• Several southern states vowed to secede if Lincoln was elected

• Southern states refused to vote in protest to tariffs

About 30 years before the Civil War erupted, South Carolina caused a Nullification Crisis by refusing to enforce a federal _____

• election

• tariff

• court decision

• holiday

After seceding from the USA, South Carolina fired the first shots of the Civil War at

• Fort Bragg

• Fort Sumter

• Summer Camp

• Antietam

Term for a person who wants to end slavery

• Secession

• Abolitionist

• Fugitive

• Southerner

To formally separate from a country

• Abolish

• Secede

• Repeal

• Compromise