Causes of Civil War

What anti-slavery Northerner helped Kansas get the nickname, "Bleeding Kansas"?

Who was the author of the important historical novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

What political party was Abraham Lincoln a part of?

Why were southerners so angered when Lincoln was elected president in 1860?

What Supreme Court ruling denied that African Americans had rights as citizens?

Tried to organize a slave uprising in Harpers Ferry, Virginia

The majority of railroads in the U.S. just prior to the Civil War were located where?

The South’s economy was largely based on what?

According to the Compromise of 1850 California would enter the Union as a...?

Popular idea during the 1800’s that America should have borders on Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

Idea that voters should decide for themselves on certain issues, including slavery.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act called for a railroad to be built from Chicago to where?

Who did Lincoln debate in the 1858 election for Senator in Illinois?

Textile mills and other manufacturing centers were a large part of the economy for whom?

Which was the 1st state to secede from the Union after Lincoln was elected president in 1860?

Why did Southerners oppose the addition of California as a state in 1850?

Part of John Brown's plan at Harpers Ferry, Virginia was to do what?

Why did John Brown’s raid in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia put fear into so many Southerners?

What was the name of the newly formed country by the seceded southern states?

Law that made it a federal crime to help escaped slaves, let bounty hunters capture runaways