CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR

This was a mini-Civil War fought in the Kansas territory between pro-slavery settlers and anti-slavery settlers 

• Missouri Compromise 
• Summer if 1856
• Bleeding Kansas
• Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas

The Missouri Compromise, the compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act were all efforts to

• end fighting between midwestern farmers and native American Indians

• encourage manufacturing in the west

• increase the number of people who voted in presidential elections

• settle disputes over the spread of slavery to the western territories

Who proposed the Compromise of 1850?

• Martin Van Buren

• John C Calhoun

• Henry Clay

• Abe Lincoln

The Compromise of 1850 admitted _________ as a free state.

• Arizona

• California

• New Mexico

• Utah

The Compromise of 1850 included a new and tougher...

• Freedom Act.

• Emancipation Act.

• Slaveowners Act.

• Fugitive Slave Act.

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Beacher Stowe

• Robert E Lee

• Fredrick Douglas

After reading Uncle Tom's Cabin most Americans wanted to

• End Slavery

• Help Slaveholders

• Fight a war

• forget about the South's problems

What did Uncle Tom’s Cabin convince the North of?

• That it was ok to own a slave

• That you shouldn’t have more than two slaves

• That Uncle Tom had a nice cabin

• That slavery was wrong

___________________-Dred Scott was a slave who tried to sue for his Freedom. He traveled with his master to FREE TERRITORY and sued for his freedom. The court ruled that Dred Scott was a SLAVE and that he was PROPERTY so he had no right to sue.

• Salt vs Abshire

• Gibbons vs Ogden

• Dredd Scott vs Sanford

• none of the above

This "debate" allowed future president Abraham Lincoln to gain popularity by Northern supporters due to his stance AGAINST slavery. He famously gave his "house divided" speech.

• Jones Debate

• Turner-Smith Debate

• Lincoln-Douglas Debate

• none of the above