Causes of the Civil War

Which of the following was NOT a cause of the American Civil War?

• States' Rights

• The Boston Tea Act

• Abraham Lincoln being elected

• Slavery

Abraham Lincoln wasn't on the voting ballot in 10 of the Southern states.

• True

• False

What was the name of the new country that was formed by the southern states?

• Republic of Texas

• United States of the South

• Democratic Republic of the Carolinas

• Confederate States of America

Who fought the North in the American Civil War?

• Mexico

• England

• The South

• The Native Americans

What was formed by the states which seceded from the Union?

• Confederacy

• Texas

• Conspiracy

• Unification

What did many Southerners fear when Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States?

• Losing their land

• Losing slavery

• Losing their families

• Losing their crops

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Doughlas, William Lloyd Garrison are examples of

• Supreme Court Justices

• abolitionists

• governors in slave states

• the other 3 presidential candidates in the election of 1860

Who organized and led the raid at Harper's Ferry?

• Uncle Tom

• Jefferson Douglass

• John Brown

• Abraham Lincoln

What is the term that means "to withdraw from the union"?

• succeed

• secede

• engage

• respond

What was a result of the Missouri Compromise?

• Slavery was not allowed north of the state of Missouri.

• Slavery was allowed north of the state of Missouri.

• Missouri would leave the union.

• The south half of Missouri would have slaves.