Causes of the Civil War

The South's economy was focused on _______, while the North was more industrial.

• Factories

• plantations

• agriculture

• creating things

The ________ made it more difficult for enslaved people to escape and angered many northerners who refused to enforce this law.

• Fugitive slave act

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Underground Railroad

South Carolina was the first state to (a)   from the Union.

In this Supreme Court case, a man sued for his freedom

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Dred Scott decision

• Missouri Compromise

• Fugitive Slave Act

The ________________ meant that the states above the 36-30N Latitude line must be free, while states below could be entered as slave states

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Wilmot Provio

• Missouri Compromise

The ________ was split during the election of 1860

• Democratic Party

• Republican Party

• Unionist Party

• Confederate Party

Which state entered into the Union as a free state as part of the Compromise of 1850?

• Missouri

• Nebraska

• California

• Kansas

The Fugitive Slave Law said that

• slaves found in the North must be returned to their owners in the south

• slaves in the south could go to the north and be free

• slaves in the north could be considered free

• slaves in the north were free after 30 days

States' Rights deals with the belief that

• the rights of the nation should come first

• the rights of the states should come first

• the rights of people should come first

• all of the abover

Abraham Lincoln was the first ____________ president

• Democratic

• Republican

• Unionist

• Progressive