(M) Causes of Civil War Test Review

Which of the following are causes of the Civil War? (select 3 answers)

• Sectionalism

• States' Rights

• The Spread of Slavery

• None of the above.

Match the following definition to its word.

• Differences in culture & economy

• States' Rights

• States have superior power over federal

• Sectionalism

• South = Supported; North = Against

• Spread of Slavery

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) North

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(b) South

• Abolition Movement

• Power in the states gov't

• Factories & Industries

• Agriculture & cash crops

• slavery

• Power in the federal gov't

Who supported slavery spreading into western territories

• Abolitionists

• Abraham Lincoln

• Harriet Tubman

• The South

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Missouri Compromise

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(b) Compromise of 1850

• Ended slave trade in Washington D.C.

• imaginary line; above = free; below = slave

• Maine = free state

• California = free state

• Missouri = slave state

• Popular Sovereignty

• Fugitive Slave Act

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Uncle Tom's Cabin

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(b) Dred Scott Decision

• African Americans were not citizens

• Supreme Court ruling

• Written by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Described horrors of slavery

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Kansas-Nebraska Act

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(b) Bleeding Kansas

• Popular sovereignty

• Violence between pro-slavery and abolitionists

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Election of Lincoln

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(b) South Carolina Seceded

• Republican President

• 1st southern state to leave the Union

• Warned they'd secede if Lincoln was elected

• Wanted to stop the spread of slavery

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Texas Secedes & Joins Confederacy

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(b) Bombing of Fort Sumter

• Started the Civil War

• Confederates bomb fort

• Sam Houston replaced as president

• Breaks away from Union