Causes of the Civil War

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What movement grew due to the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

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the abolition movement

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What was one impact of Harriet Beecher Stowe's book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin?"

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by increasing demands for the government to end slavery in all states

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Why did John Brown attack a federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia?

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to obtain guns to arm enslaved people and carry out a rebellion

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What is the principle called "states' rights"?

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The belief that a state can ignore any federal law it does not like.

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Why did southern states want to practice states' rights so much?

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They wanted to ignore any new laws against slavery that northern lawmakers might make.

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Where did the first battle of the Civil War take place?

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Fort Sumter

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Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?

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Jefferson Davis

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Who won the battle at Fort Sumter?

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the Confederacy

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Which difference between the North and South helped cause the Civil War? More enslaved people in the South, More factories in the South, There are more shipping companies in the South, There were more American Indians in the South

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More enslaved people in the South

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What did John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia prove about the abolition movement?

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abolitionists were willing to use violence to help end slavery