Causes of the civil war -2025

People who opposed slavery were known as:

• Abolitionists

• Secessionists

• Sharecroppers

• Confederates

Which of these introduced the idea of popular sovereignty?

• “Bleeding Kansas”

• John Brown

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

​ (a)   was the first state to vote to secede from the Union.

• South Carolina
• Georgia
• New York
• Tennessee

Label the Union and the Confederacy.

a

b

Union

Confederacy

Even though his name was not on the ballot in most Southern states, (a)   won the election of 1860.

• Abraham Lincoln
• John Bell
• Stephen Douglas
• John Breckenridge

In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court said

• Enslaved people have the same rights as other Americans.
• Slavery was illegal in all territories.
• Enslaved people became citizens if they moved to a free state.
• Enslaved people were property and they had no rights.
  

What was the name of the radical abolitionist that raided a military arsenal to arm slaves for a revolt?

• Dred Scott
• John Brown
• Jefferson Davis
• John Emerson

The Civil War began in what year?

• 1820
• 1850
• 3016
• 1861

How many states eventually joined the Confederacy?

• 10

• 11

• 24

• 15

Which book turned many Northerners against slavery?

• The Secret Life of John Brown
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The Diaries of Jefferson Davis