Causes of the Civil War

What was the fundamental question addressed in these congressional acts?

• Should the US expand westward?

• Should states be allowed to nullify federal laws?

• Should slave labor be allowed in new states?

• Should states be able to secede from the Union?

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

• States' Rights

• Popular Sovereignty

• The Fugitive Slave Act

• The Underground Railroad

Choose TWO of the decisions made in the court case Dred Scott v. Sandford

• The federal government did not have the power to regulate slavery

• Freedmen are protected in the Fugitive Slave Law

• Slaves are not considered citizens but considered property

• Popular Sovereignty should decide the slavery issue

An abolitionist is MOST likely to live in the ...

• North

• South

• West

Which of the following was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?

• Fighting broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in Kansas

• The boundary of the Missouri Compromise was extended

• Nebraskan settlers who supported abolition moved to Kansas

What was one effect of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?

• Immigrants were forced to relocate from eastern cities to western

  territories.

• The Missouri Compromise was deemed unconstitutional by federal

  courts.

• Tensions among the populations of northern and southern states

  increased.

• The Republican Party lost influence in the federal legislature.

Which regions primary economic activity was industrial manufacturing?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Which regions primary economic activity was plantation agriculture?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

What was one result of the law described above?

• Northerners that thought the law was unfair began to support the abolitionist movement

• Religious groups left the abolitionist movement to avoid political controversy

• Southerners used the law to challenge the constitutionality of abolitionist goals

Select TWO events that are considered causes of the Civil War

• Boston Tea Party

• Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Marbury v. Madison

• Declaration of Independence