Causes of the Civil War Review

The Missouri Compromise tried to maintain the balance between slave states and free states.

• True

• False

Match the words with the correct definition.

• popular sovereignty

• a person who has escaped from a place or is in hiding, especially to avoid arrest

• fugitive

• a war between opposing groups of citizens from the same country

• civil war

• the idea that the people in a territory should vote to allow slavery

• debate

• to formally discuss an issue

• compromise

• an agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions

Who was a violent opponent of slavery?

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Brown

• Frederick Douglass

• John C Calhoun

In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court ruled that

• slaves could never become citizens

• Dred Scott must be freed

• black people were property

• human beings were not property

Which of these introduced the idea of popular sovereignty?

• “Bleeding Kansas”

• John Brown

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

​ (a)   was the first state to vote to secede from the Union.

• South Carolina
• Georgia
• New York
• Tennessee

Even though his name was not on the ballot in most Southern states, (a)   won the election of 1860.

• Abraham Lincoln
• John Bell
• Stephen Douglas
• John Breckenridge

Why did Dred Scott sue for his freedom?

• His owner had taken him to live in a free state

• His owner said it was okay

• He was born free

• He bought his freedom

Label the Union and the Confederacy.

a

b

Confederacy

Union

What political party was Lincoln a member of?

• Democrats

• Republicans

• Federalists

• Democratic-Republicans