AICE Brainpop Causes of the Civil War & Origins of the Civil War

The Supreme Court’s power to decide whether a law is constitutional or unconstitutional

President of the Confederate States of America

How did radical abolitionists react to John Brown’s actions at Harper’s Ferry?

Site of the outbreak of the Civil War

Which was NOT a characteristic of the North that led to sectional tension?

Which is NOT a reason Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 election with only 39% of the vote?

State which became a free state in 1820

Why were the Lincoln-Douglas debates (1858) important?

Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

BP7. What was the goal of many laws Congress passed inthe lead-up to the Civil War?

Site of a mini-civil war in 1856 that killed over 200 people

How did Northerners react to Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

What was Abraham Lincoln’s main goal at the beginning of the Civil War?

1820 agreement meant to keep the balance between slave states and free states

How did Southerners react to Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

BP10. What was the central conflict that led to the Civil War?

How did Southerners react to John Brown’s actions at Harper’s Ferry?

Most Americans believed this was the border between Mexico and the United States.

Political group which became stronger in the South after the Wilmot Proviso

Political group which became stronger in the North after the Wilmot Proviso

Ideal destination of the Underground Railroad

State which became a slave state in 1820

An independent country between 1836 and 1845

The people of the new state would decide whether the new state would be free or slave state.

As part of the Comp. of 1850, the people here could vote on becoming free or slave states.

An expansionist president who believed in Manifest Destiny

Slave who was told by the Supreme Court that he had no rights, enraging abolitionists.

state legislation meant to fight the Fugitive Slave Act

BP9: Which detail shows that the U.S. had violated thestatement that "all men are created equal"?

Historians who believed that the war was caused by foolish generation of politicians

What did Abraham Lincoln mean by “A house divided against itself cannot stand”?

Which is NOT a way Lincoln reacted to the attack on Fort Sumter?

Agreement which gained Upper California and New Mexico for the United States

Capital of the Confederacy at the start of the Civil War

Why did the Southern states secede from the Union following Abraham Lincoln’s election?

Why were the Border States important to the Union?

6. What event would an abolitionist support?

Historians who believed that the Civil War was an unavoidable collision

It caused other parties to unite against any expansion of slavery by forming a new party.

Leading senatorial voice for popular sovereignty

What was John Brown’s goal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia?

Which was NOT one of Jefferson Davis’s main goals at the beginning of the Civil War?

Someone who wanted to end slavery

Site of an attack on a munitions depot (arsenal)

Most Mexicans believed this was the border between Mexico and the United States.

BP8: What was NOT a result of the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott’s case?

BP4. Which agreement established a Constitutional rulefor representation in Congress?

Political group which was formed by a uniting of politicians after the Kansas-Nebraska Act

BP2: Which state was the first to secede after AbrahamLincoln became President?

Which is NOT a way that the northern part of Virginia is different from the rest of the state?

As part of the Compromise of 1850, it joined the United States as a free state.

As part of the Compromise of 1850, the slave trade (but not slavery) was abolished here.

Which was NOT a characteristic of the South that led to sectional tension?

Republican whose election in 1860 led to the secession of the Confederate states

Stated that slavery was not to be permitted in any land gained from Mexico

BP3: What was the main purpose of President Lincoln's first speech to the nation?

BP5. Which statements apply to both the MissouriCompromise and the Compromise of 1850?

A white abolitionist who led an attack on a munitions depot (arsenal)

Where the people were loyal to the Union but some owned slaves