Causes of the Civil War

What was the purpose of the Missouri Compromise?

Act which split the Louisiana Territory into two territories and had people vote on slavery.

Novel written to expose the horrors of slavery. It made many Northerners outraged over slavery.

This act made it illegal to help runaway enlaved persons.

This was decided by the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case:

This was used to decide the slavery issue in Kansas and Nebraska.

This part of the Compromise of 1850 was beneficial to the south:

Which Compromise admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state?

This abolitionist tried to start a slave revolt after attacking a federal arsenal in Virginia.

This was the first state to secede after the election of 1860.

The site of the first official conflict of the Civil War.

A period of violence caused by clashes between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups