Causes of the Civil War

Causes of the Civil War

8th Grade

25 Qs

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Causes of the Civil War

Causes of the Civil War

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

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

tariffs

slavery

states rights

trade with Europe

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

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

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