Causes of the Civil War

Why would southerners rather secede than accept Abraham Lincoln as president?

• Lincoln did not receive a majority of popular votes.

• Lincoln wanted to stop the expansion of slavery.

• Lincoln said he would emancipate all slaves if elected.

• Lincoln wanted settlers in territories to vote on slavery.

Which is a correct statement about the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision of 1857?

• The decision pleased both the North and South.

• Abolitionists considered the decision a great victory.

• Slaves were classified as property without human rights.

• Expansion of slavery into new territories was declared illegal.

People who opposed slavery were known as:

• Confederates

• Sharecroppers

• Secessionists

• Abolitionists

What compromise created the State of Maine and maintained a balance between free and slave states in the U.S. Senate?

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Great Compromise

• 3/5 Compromise

Who negotiated the Compromise of 1850?

• Stephen Douglas

• Henry Clay

• Barack Obama

• Warren G. Harding

During the 1850s, whose freedom was addressed by the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark case that denied rights to African Americans?

• Harriet Tubman

• Henry McNeal Turner

• Dred Scott

• Homer Plessy

Which presidential candidate won the Election of 1860 despite not winning delegates from the slave states?

• Andrew Johnson

• Andrew Jackson

• Abraham Lincoln

• U.S. Grant

A deal where California was admitted to the Union as a free state, and the Fugitive Slave Law was passed to help return runaway slaves to their owners regardless of where the slaves were living in the United States.

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas- Nebraska Act

• Great Compromise

This was a compromise between the North and South that allowed California to enter the union in exchange for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

Supreme Court ruling that declared that African-Americans were not citizens of the United States.

• Dred Scott Case

• Worcester vs Georgia