Causes of the Civil War/Civil War Review

States in the South believed:

• They should have more representatives in Congress than the Northern states.

• That all territories in America should NOT be allowed to vote on the issue of slavery.

• That State's Rights should have more political power than the Federal Government.

• The Southern senators should be allowed to create bills without approval from their State Governments.

Who threatened to leave the Union after President Lincoln was elected as President in 1860?

• Southern States

• Northern States

• Western Territories

• Great Britain

The Free Soil Party wanted

• Cheap Land
• Free Dirt
• Abolish Slavery
• No Slavery out West

State sovereignty

• The idea that states have the right to govern themselves.

• Loyalty to a region.

• Compromise that settled the issue of slave states and free states.

The Missouri Compromise provided

• Florida to enter the union.

• Bayshore to become a state.

• Canada to be a slave state.

• admission for Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

What led to the violence in Kansas in 1855? 

• the repeal of the Compromise of 1850
• the election of Abraham Lincoln as President
• the verdict in Dred Scott v. Sanford
• the rivalry between proslavery and antislavery settlers

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• Harriet Tubman

• Mary Todd

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Eliza Harris

What did Uncle Tom’s Cabin convince the North of?

• That it was ok to own a slave

• That you shouldn’t have more than two slaves

• That Uncle Tom had a nice cabin

• That slavery was wrong

What was the third component of the Supreme Court decision?

• Congress Would Decide The Slave Issue In The Territories

• The President Would Decide The Slave Issue In The Territories

• The President Could Not Ban Slavery In The Territories

• Congress Could Not Ban Slavery In The Territories

In the Presidential election of 1860, the Republican Party nominated the former U.S. Representative from Illinois, ____________.

• Stephen A. Douglas

• John C. Breckinridge

• John Bell

• Abraham Lincoln