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8th Grade US History Causes of the Civil War
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1
Which best describes the effect of the Dred Scott decission on African Americans?
They were set free and given rights
They were officially labled as property by the Constitution
They were not citizens so had no rights
They were sent to the colony of Liberia
2
What happened as a result of the Missouri Compromise?
Slavery prohibited north of Missouri's Southern border
Slave rebellions in border states
Kansas Nebraska Act Extended West
Violence between pro-slavery and Anti-slavery forces
3
What were the guidelines of the Kansas Nebraska Act?
KA & NB would not become states
Both KA & NB would be slave states
Popular sovereignty to decide if KA & NB free or slave
Both KA & NB would be free states
4
Who is this??
John Wilkes Booth
John Brown
Abraham Lincoln
Stephen Douglas
5
What happened as a result of the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Slave rebellion in border states
Violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavey settlers
Exension of the Missouri Compromise
Emancipation Proclamation
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After seceeding what was the first thing Southern states did in 1861?
Created and army for protection
Created a leader by electing Davis President
Created the Confederate States of America
Write a Constitution similar to the US Constitution
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What does
Popular Sovereignty
mean?
Allowing voters to decide if territory wouuld have slaves
Devotion to region instead of nation as a whole
Priciple that outlawed slavery in a territory or state
Act of formally withdrawing from the Union
8
Why was Harriet Beecher Stowe significant?
Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin which taught the N. about slavery
Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation which freed slaves.
She wrote War and Peace which predicted the Civil War
Wrote the Dred Scott decision increasing N S tensions
9
Which statement best describes how the Compromise of 1850 impacted the Senate?
New Mexico being added would give more votes to the South
Missouri would be added as a slave state
Califonia being added would give more votes to the North
Both Kansas and Nebraska wanted to be added as states
10
Which movement were Americans that actively opposed slavery part of?
American Colinization Movement
Anti-Abolition Movement
Abolitionist Movement
All for slavery movement
11
Which geographic factor contributed to slavery in the South?
Free Africans gettiong the right to vote
forests and moderate temperatures
Long growing season & fertile soil
cool climate
12
What legal argument did South Carolina use to justify secession?
Constitution allows states to leave the Union if voted on
African Americans were not considered to be citizens
Slaves were considered property in territories
Constitution does not forbid secession so it is OK to seceed
13
Which of the following was a novel that convinced many to oppose slavery?
Dred Scott v Sanford
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The North Star
Tales of the Underground Railroad
14
Elizabeth Cady Stanton is to women's rights as Frederick Douglass is to which movement?
Temperance
Enlightenment
Great Awakening
Abolition
15
What does
secession
mean?
Leaving the Union
Eliminating the Constitution
Voting to be a slaver of free state
Compromising about slavery
16
Which of the following had the greatest impact on Southern agriculture?
The steam engine
The mechanical reaper
The cotton gin
Transportation Revolution
17
Which of the following tried to end slavery by giving guns from an arsenal to slaves to rebel?
John Brown
Stephen Douglass
Dredd Scott
Frederick Douglass
18
Which of the following issued did the Republican Party support?
Opposition to abolition
Oppose the spread of slavery
The transportation revolution
Supported slavery and slave owners
19
Why was Stephen Douglas significant to the cause of the Civil War?
Fought for women's rights at Seneca Falls in 1848.
Ex-slave that published the North Star to protest slavery
Republican candidate that beat Lincoln for president in 1860
Debated Lincoln in 1858 making Lincoln well known.
20
What did Elizabeth Cady Stanton ask for at the Seneca Falls convention in 1848?
End to taxes
To get elected to the government
The right to freely assemble
Women's right to vote
21
Why was Roger Taney significant to the causes of the Civil War?
He ruled that blacks were equal to whites increasing tension
He ruled the 36-30 line unconstitutional increasing tension
He ordered all slaves to move to Liberia increasing tension
He raided Harpers Ferry increasing tensions
22
Why were protective tariffs significant to the causes of the Civil War?
They hurt Northern businesses which hurt the South's economy
The South wanted them but the North would not enact them
They helped Southern factories so the North opposed tariffs.
The North and South argued over the use of them
23
What was given to the South by the Compromise of 1850 to get the region's support?
Stricter fugitive slave law
Slave trade would be abolished in Washington, D.C.
California admitted as a free state
Texas gave up land claims along Rio Grande
24
What is a person that runs for political office known as?
Lier
Deligate
Candate
Representative
25
Which of the following was the most active method of protesting slavery?
Being a conductior on Underground Rail Road
Running for a position in Congress
Writing a newspaper like the South Star
Protesting at abolitionist conventions
