Causes of Civil War Pt. 1

Match the following causes of the Civil War

• Allowed new states and territories to vote on allowing slavery or not

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Allowed Missouri in as a slave state, Maine as a free state

• Missouri Compromise

• Someone who tries to end slavery

• Abolitionist

• Said that slaves are "property" and no one of African descent can be an American citizen

• Dred Scot Decision

• Allowed California as a slave state, led to tougher fugitive slave laws

• Compromise of 1850

Match the following causes of the Civil War

• California allowed as a Free State

• Raid on Harpers Ferry

• Started when John Brown tried to steal weapons to give out to slaves in the South

• Dred Scot Decision

• Slaves are property; Northern States were angry

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Allowed slave owners to enter the North and capture their runaway slaves

• Compromise of 1850

• Started when John Brown moved to Kansas and killed at least 5 slavery supporters

• Bleeding Kansas

Case brought before the Supreme Court involving a slave wanted his freedom: Court decided African Americans CAN'T be citizens and can't sue in federal court.

• Dred Scott Decision
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Fugitive Slave Act

John Brown was hanged for leading a raid on _____.

• Independence Square
• Truman Corners
• Harper's Ferry
• The Landing

In the Missouri Compromise, what state was allowed to enter as a slave state?

• Missouri
• Maine
• Kentucky
• Ohio

This said all blacks were NOT US citizens

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

an 1854 law that established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery.

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Fugitive Slave Law

What did the Dred Scott decision say?

• It considered slaves to be property without rights.
• It outlawed slavery in all U.S. states
• It required that slavery not be allowed in all new states
• It gave slaves all the rights of U.S. citizens

An abolitionist is  

• a person who fights for slavery
• a soldier that fights for the Confederate
• A person who fights against slavery
• a soldier that fights for the Union

What did the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and "Bleeding Kansas" have in common?

• They were all vetoed by President Abraham Lincoln.

• They helped Abraham Lincoln win the Election of 1860.

• They all dealt with the expansion of slavery into the western territories.

• They were permanent solutions to the conflict between the North and South.