Copy of Overview causes & course of the Civil War (The Civil War in Four Minutes: The War Between the States)

What was the conflict that the Missouri Compromise tried to solve?

• Balance of power in Congress, between North and South 

• Conflict with Native Americans on the western frontier

• Whether to include freedom of speech in the Constitution

What was increasing in America in the early 1800s?

• Mercantilism

• Sectionalism

• Unity

The fugitive slave law was part of the....

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

What was the final reason that the Southern States seceded?

The first battle of the Civil War was at _______________

What was the Anaconda Plan?

• A blockade

• Siege warfare

• An attack

What event happened at Appomattox Courthouse?

• The North and South fought a great battle

• The Civil War Began

• The South surrendered to the Union

Abraham Lincoln helped to pass the _____ which said slavery was illegal in all of the U.S.

• 13th Amendment

• Compromise of 1850

• 28th Amendment

• Fugitive Slave Law

What is the estimated death count in the Civil War?

• 620,000

• 600,200,000

• 620