Civil War Causes

Civil War

• war fought between people in the same country

• war fought between neighboring nations

• war fought near the ocean

• war fought between countries across the world

Believing that your section of the country is more important than the rest of the country is...

• partisanship
• Civil War
• sectionalism
• treason

This was one of the main causes that led to the Civil War. The North did not want this and the South did. The  South depended on this for their economy and to make a profit. 

• State's Rights
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Slavery
• John Brown's Raid

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Doughlas, William Lloyd Garrison are examples of

• Supreme Court Justices

• abolitionists

• governors in slave states

• the other 3 presidential candidates in the election of 1860

What is an abolitionist?

• Someone who wants to abolish or end slavery.
• Someone who wants to end voting for slaves.
• Someone who doesn't want to work with slaves.
• Someone who wants to never wear jeans.

What did slaves use to escape to Freedom?

• The Anaconda Plan
• The Oregon Trail
• The Union Express Railroad
• The Underground Railroad

What problem did the Missouri Compromise solve?

• Southern states wanted a free state.
• It made an equal number of slave and free states.
• It made more slave states.
• It made more free states.

Which part of the Compromise of 1850 is being addressed by the poster?

• States' Rights

• Popular Sovereignty

• The Fugitive Slave Act

• The Underground Railroad

What led to violence in Kansas in 1854?

• People disagreed over the vote for slavery.
• People voted for Kansas to be free.
• People voted for Kansas to be a territory.
• Nebraska was split.

What was the result of the Dred Scott decision?

• New states would vote on whether to allow slavery or not.

• African Americans were not citizens of the United States and were, in fact, the property of their white owners.

• Slavery was banned in new states and territories.

• Slaves could sue their owners for freedom.