Causes of Civil War

Question 1

Supreme Court ruled against citizenship for slaves; and the ban on slavery in any territory

Accepted Answer

Dred Scott Decision

Question 2

Missouri, slave state; Maine, free state, and no slavery north of the 36-30 parallel

Accepted Answer

Missouri Compromise of 1820

Question 3

Regional differences favoring their own region over a different region

Accepted Answer

sectionalism

Question 4

Allow the people who live in a community the right to vote slavery or no slavery

Accepted Answer

Popular Sovereignity

Question 5

Series of debates between Senate candidates over major 1850's issues and focused on slavery

Accepted Answer

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Question 6

Pres. candidate in 1860 wanted to protect slavery and the rights of states to leave the Union

Accepted Answer

John Breckinridge

Question 7

Replaced the Missouri Compromise in Kansas and Nebraska territories with popular sovereignty

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 8

A violent result of people rushing into Kansas and trying to force slavery upon the state

Accepted Answer

Bleeding Kansas

Question 9

Made it a crime for northerners to help runaway slaves and made northerners help find runaways

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Fugitive Slave Law

Question 10

Anti-slavery presidential candidate in 1860

Accepted Answer

Abraham Lincoln

Question 11

Read by 1000's of northerners and helped influence many to do more to end slavery

Accepted Answer

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Question 12

Calif. became a free state and popular sovereignty to be used in Utah and N. M. territories.

Accepted Answer

Compromise of 1850

Question 13

Pres. candidate in 1860, a slave owner, wanted peace and was a strict Constitutionalist

Accepted Answer

John Bell

Question 14

Presidential candidate in 1860 who supported popular sovereignty

Accepted Answer

Stephen Douglas

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