Causes of the Civil War Checkpoint

What was the main issue at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 regarding slavery?

• How to count enslaved people for representation and taxation

• How to import more enslaved people

• Deciding on a national language

• Whether to abolish slavery immediately

Why did the southern states want to count enslaved people?

• To encourage more states to allow slavery

• To allow enslaved people to vote

• More representation in politics

• To pay more in taxes

What was the Three-Fifths Compromise?

• A rule that allowed enslaved people to vote

• A decision to end slavery in all states

• A compromise that counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person for taxation and representation

• A law that freed enslaved people

What did the Missouri Compromise achieve?

• It banned slavery in the northern states

• It allowed all states to decide on slavery by vote

• It made slavery illegal in all states

• It admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state to maintain balance

What did the gag rule in Congress do?

• It allowed open discussions on slavery

• It required all enslaved people to be silent

• It prohibited any discussion in Congress on ending slavery

• It made English the official language of Congress

What was the outcome of the Compromise of 1850?

• It made California a free state

• It allowed children of enslaved people to be free

• It ended the Civil War

• It established Washington, D.C. as the capital

What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act allow?

• People in the territories to vote on legalizing slavery

• Slavery to be banned in all new territories

• All enslaved people to be freed

• Kansas and Nebraska to join as one state

What did the Fugitive Slave Act require?

• The release of all imprisoned abolitionists

• All escaped enslaved people to be returned to their owners

• All states to abolish slavery

• Enslaved people to be paid for their work

What was the significance of 'Bleeding Kansas'?

• It was a violent conflict over whether Kansas would be a free or slave state

• It was a peaceful protest against slavery

• It was a series of debates on slavery

• It was a law that ended slavery in Kansas

What was the main result of the Dred Scott decision?

• It made slavery illegal in the territories

• It ended slavery in the southern states

• It declared enslaved people were property, not citizens

• It freed Dred Scott