Causes of the Civil War

Which of the following was not an example of a cause of the American Civil War?

• Slavery

•  the presidential election of 1860

• Westward Expansion

• increased immigration

Abraham Lincoln’s 1858 warning that “a house divided against itself cannot stand” referred to sectional differences over the

• treaties with European nations

• issue of slavery

•  funding for internal improvements

Legislative Act creating an imaginary line where all states North of that line would be “free states” and all states south would be “slave states”

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Law

• None of the Above

Which statement best describes the Compromise of 1850?

• California became a slave state

• Missouri became a slave state and Maine became a free state

• California became a free state and the Fugitive Slave Law

• The spread of slavery became illegal

What was the main export of the 19th century southern US?

• Tobacco

• Indigo

• Oil

• Cotton

What invention was a catalyst (sped up) the American Civil War?

• Camera

• Cotton Gin

• Railroad

• B & C

The term used to describe two areas that do not agree on government and law?

• Economic Sectionalism

• Political Sectionalism

• Separate but Equal

• Social Sectionalism

The Kansas-Nebraska Act …

• Repealed both the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 by deciding slavery on popular sovreinty (voting)

• Made an imaginary line separating Northern free states and southern slave states

• Made Nebraska a free state and Kansas a slave state

• Made Kansas a free state and Nebraska a slave state

True or False: The term abolitionist means to be against slavery.

• True

• False

The Fugitive Slave Law

• was passed in 1800 and stated that Northerners had to return escaped slaves back to slavery in the south

• Charged slaves with criminal crimes they had to answer for in court

• was passed in 1850 and stated that Northerners had to return escaped slaves back to slavery in the south

• Both A & C