Causes of the Civil War

The South was a  major producer of the cotton used in northern mills.  This influenced what?

•  The economic development of the United States and dependence on slavery

• The education system in the South
• The abolitionist movement in the South
• The increase in T-shirt sales in the U.S.

 May people feared the admission of new slave states.  Therefore, many abolitionists were against what?

• Admitting South Carolina as a slave state
• Supported an isolationist foreign policy
• were against the annexation of new Western territory
• Moving to Canada

"Am I to argue that it is wrong to make men brutes, to rob them of their liberty, to work them without wages, to keep them ignorant of their relations to their fellow men, to beat them with sticks, to [lash] their flesh with a [whip], to load their limbs with irons, to hunt them with dogs, to sell them at auction, to [break up] their families, to knock out their teeth, to burn their flesh, to starve them into obedience to their masters?  Must I argue that a system marked with blood is wrong?  No-I will no."                                                                   A speech to citizens of Rochester, New York on July 4, 1852
Who would have given this kind of speech?

• Frederick Douglass
• Robert E. Lee
• John C. Calhouln
• John Wilkes Booth

What did these developments have in common?

• They wanted to end the abolitionists movement
• They sought changes to end slavery
• They thought that Texas should secede
• They wanted Abe Lincoln to resign

Drag the correct answer to the correct box:
Most​ (a)   disagreed with the ​ (b)   because it forced them to seize and report escaped slaves. As a result many of them began to support the ​ (c)   movement.

• northerners
• Fugitive Slave Act
• abolitionist
• southerners
• Emancipation Proclamation
• pro-slavery

Fighting broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in Kansas.  This was known as what cause of the Civil War?

• The Compromise of 1850
• The Dred Scott decision
• Bleeding Kansas

• The Fighting of Nebraska

He represented the interests of the North, supported the High Protective Tariff, opposed the spread of slavery into new territories,  supported the Compromise of 1850, and faced Abraham Lincoln in a series of debates.

• John Quincy Adams
• Stephen A Douglass
• Daniel Webster
• Abraham Lincoln

The Compromise of 1850 allowed certain territories to use___________________________ to determine whether the territory would be free or slave.  This decision applied to much of the land gained from the the U.S. Mexican War.

• Three Fifths Compromise
• Raiding
• Popular sovereignty 
• Secession

The Book called Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe caused what to happen?

• Support grew for the abolitionist movement
• A slave riot in Kansas
• Support grew for the Slave expansionists
• Support grew for the movement to Alaska

Throughout the 1800's in the US there was a growing difference in parts of the country. This is known as (a)   . The two sides could hardly agree on anything; one example of this was the ongoing (b)   and whether or not a state could nullify a law it disagreed with. Perhaps the most obvious issue, however would be the (c)   ​ and whether or not new states would be free or slave.

• The rise of sectionalism
• Debates over states' rights and tariffs
• Division over the spread of slavery
• The unification of the states
• The impact of industrialization
• The influence of foreign policy