Causes of the Civil War

What was the main cause of the Civil War?

• Slavery

• State's Rights

• Nat Turner's Rebellion

• John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Which event directly triggered the secession of Southern states from the Union?

• Election of Abraham Lincoln

• Dred Scott Decision

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Emancipation Proclamation

Why was slavery the cause of the Civil War?

• Violence between proslavery and antislavery forces in the Kansas Territory as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• North and South disagreed over the issue of slavery

• Allowed Nebraska and Kansas to vote whether or not to allow slavery

• They saw it as an act of terrorism

What was the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

• A slave who sued for his freedom

• The Northern were based on industries whereas Southern states were based on agriculture

• Declared that enslaved Africans and their descendants were not eligible for citizenship, and the federal government viewed black people as property

• All states North of the line were free states and all states South of the line were slaves states

What did the Compromise of 1850 do?

• A rebellion by slaves in Virginia in which the slaves killed 55 white people

• A combination of 5 laws which made California a free state and allowed for popular sovereignty to take place in territories gained from Mexico

• 
  An enslaved African American preacher who organized a slave rebellion near Richmond, Virginia

• The country disagreed about what to do about slavery and the North and South could feel threatened by the results

The primary reason the Civil War as fought was over the issue of

• tariffs

• slavery

• states rights

• trade with Europe

What did the Southern states that seceded name their new country?

• The United States of America II

• The Confederate States of America

• The Southern States of America

• The Slave States United

What did the Fugitive Slave Act do?

• An enslaved African American preacher who organized a slave rebellion near Richmond, Virginia

• Slavery

• They saw it as an act of terrorism from abolitionists

• Law that required Northerners to find people who had run away from slavery and return them to their enslavers

What was Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• An abolitionist who attempted to lead a slave revolt by capturing arsenals and giving weapons to slaves

• Book about slavery written by Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Northern and Southern states believed they avoided a civil war with this compromise

• 
  Northern and Southern disagreed about how to deal with the institution of slavery

What was the purpose of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• The Northern states were based on industries and factories and the Southern states were based on farming

• To show the injustices of slavery and to prove that slavery was evil

• The South felt threatened by Lincoln because they believed Lincoln would ban slavery in the United States

• Northern and Southern disagreed about how to deal with the institution of slavery