Unit 12 Test - Causes of the Civil War

Match the Causes of the Civil War:

• secession

• To break away from the Union, like South Carolina.

• sectionalism

• Loyalty to a part of the country as opposed to the whole.

• states' rights

• Involuntary servitude, supported by the South & banned in the North.

• slavery

• The belief that a state has the right not to follow a federal law if they oppose it.

Events that led to the Civil War:

A slave sued for his freedom but the ruling said that slaves could not sue because slaves are not citizens, they are considered property & it made the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.

(a)  

• Creation of Free-Soil Party
•  Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Creation of the Republican Party
• Fort Sumter
• Bleeding Kansas
• US Constitution
• Dred Scott Decision

Events that led to the Civil War:

The creation of this party, their slogan was: Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor & Free Men!

​ (a)  

•  Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Creation of the Republican Party
• Fort Sumter
• Bleeding Kansas
• US Constitution
• Dred Scott Decision
• Creation of Free-Soil Party

Events that led to the Civil War:

Voters would decide by popular sovereignty to be free or slave in their territory & repealed the Missouri Compromise.​

(a)  

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Creation of the Republican Party
• Fort Sumter
• Bleeding Kansas
• US Constitution
• Dred Scott Decision
• Creation of Free-Soil Party
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Events that led to the Civil War:

This required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves & send them back to their owners or be fined and jailed.​

(a)  

• Creation of the Republican Party
• Fort Sumter
• Bleeding Kansas
• US Constitution
• Dred Scott Decision
• Creation of Free-Soil Party
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Fugitive Slave Act

Events that led to the Civil War:

Party formed by Free-Soilers, northern Dem. & Anti-slave Whigs; their goal – stop the spread of slavery. ​

(a)  

• Fort Sumter
• Bleeding Kansas
• US Constitution
• Dred Scott Decision
• Creation of Free-Soil Party
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Creation of the Republican Party

Events that led to the Civil War:

Where was the first official battle of the Civil War?​

(a)  

• Bleeding Kansas
• US Constitution
• Dred Scott Decision
• Creation of Free-Soil Party
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Creation of the Republican Party
• Fort Sumter

Events that led to the Civil War:

This event was in 1856 when pro & anti-slavery people were fighting over whether or not a certain state should be free or slave.​

(a)  

• US Constitution
• Dred Scott Decision
• Creation of Free-Soil Party
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Creation of the Republican Party
• Fort Sumter
• Bleeding Kansas

Events that led to the Civil War:

This document includes the 3/5th Compromise & was written by our Founding Fathers.

(a)  

• Dred Scott Decision
• Creation of Free-Soil Party
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Creation of the Republican Party
• Fort Sumter
• Bleeding Kansas
• US Constitution

Events that led to the Civil War:

People who wanted to end slavery completely and the number of people who didn't believe in slavery grew

rapidly.

(a)  

• Rise of the Abolitionist Movement
• Missouri Compromise
• Election of 1860
• Lincoln-Douglas Debates
• Compromise of 1850
• Caning of Sen. Sumner
• John Brown’s Raid
• Secession of South Carolina