Causes of the Civil War -- 5th grade

Which region of the United States would have made the most use of the cotton gin?

Which innovation did the North (aka Union) NOT use fighting against the South (aka Confederacy) during the Civil War?

Antebellum doctrine that allowed for citizens of a territory to vote to become a free or slave state

Supreme Court ruling in 1857 that slaves were property and not people

_________ was the region of the United States that favored states' rights (powerful state governments).

Law passed in 1854 allowing two territories to decide to become either free states or slave states

Which of the following was NOT a cause that led to the Civil War?

The Underground Railroad was neither underground nor was it a railroad

Statement issued by President Lincoln in 1863 freeing all slaves in Confederate states.

Who was the President of the United States during the Civil War (1861 - 1865)

Factories were located in the Northern part of the United States.

Prussian aristocrat who helped General Washington train and discipline U.S. troops at Valley Forge, PA in 1777

Why did Southern states reject the election of Abraham Lincoln as president in 1860?

1861 plan of General Winfield Scott to blockade the South to keep supplies from going to the Confederacy

Author of the 1776 pamphlet that stated North American colonies should be free from British Rule