Causes of the American Civil War Worksheet

What is generally cited as the main cause for the American Civil War?

• Slavery

• Taxation without representation

• Disputes over the national bank

• Territorial expansion

In the mid-1800s, the economies of many northern states had moved away from farming to what?

• Industry

• Fishing

• Mining

• Ranching

The southern states had maintained a large farming economy and this economy was based on what?

• Slave labor

• Free trade

• Industrialization

• Foreign investment

The southern states felt that the federal government was doing what?

• Taking away their rights and powers.

• Giving them more land.

• Lowering their taxes.

• Supporting their way of life.

As the United States continued to expand westward, each new state added to the country shifted the power between the North and the South. Each new state had become a battleground between the two sides for what?

• Power

• Land Ownership

• Religious Freedom

• Trade Routes

What were the people called that believed slavery was wrong and evil?

• Abolitionists

• Confederates

• Plantation Owners

• Slave Traders

List the names of three famous abolitionists.

• John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman

• George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln

• Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Theodore Roosevelt

• Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams

In 1854, the government passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act allowing residents of Kansas to vote on whether they would be a slave state or a free state. What is this event called?

• Bleeding Kansas

• The Missouri Compromise

• The Compromise of 1850

• The Dred Scott Decision

Kansas entered the Union as which type of state?

• A free state

• A slave state

• A neutral state

• A territory