Causes of the Civil War

Which of the following laws tipped the balance of power in Congress in favor of the North? (John C. Calhoun didn't want the South to pass it.)

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Wilmot Proviso

Which law allowed for popular sovereignty to settle the slavery issue in the Louisiana Territory?

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Wilmot Proviso

Which of the following groups best describes John Brown?

• abolitionist

• slave holder

• pacifist

• moderate

How did John Brown plan to emancipate the slaves?

• Having Congress pass a law

• Voting for a constitutional amendment

• Writing pamphlets and giving speeches

• Raiding Harpers Ferry to start a slave revolt

Name one problem that led to the Civil War.​ (a)  

• Slavery

• Land Acquisitions

• Territories

Answer explanation

Many consider a significant starting point to slavery in America to be 1619, when the privateer The White Lion brought 20 enslaved African ashore in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia. The crew had seized the Africans from the Portuguese slave ship Sao Jao Bautista.

The Fugitive Slave Act was part of the

​ (a)   and caused many Northerners to ​ (b)   .

• Compromise of 1850

• join the abolition movement

• Missouri Compromise

• Nullification Crisis

• cooperate with Southern slave owners

• run for Congress

You have the feeling of ​ (a)   if you feel that your region of the country is more important than the country as a whole.​

• sectionalism

• secession

Which event angered northerners because it allowed for slavery to spread into the territories?

• Dred Scott Decision

• John Brown's Raid

• Missouri Compromise

• Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Which part of the Compromise of 1850 was the most divisive and controversial?

• California becomes a free state

• the Fugitive Slave Law

• Popular Sovereignty in the Mexican Cession

• Slave trade abolished in Washington DC

Which person challenged Stephen Douglas in a series of debates and impressed the Republican Party?

• John C. Breckinridge

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Bell

• John C. Fremont