Causes of the Civil War Quiz

The Fugitive Slave Act said African Americans did not have a right to ___.

______________________ was president of the Confederacy.

Most Americans in the 1850s supported the construction of a ____. Stephen Douglas was glad.

Who was NOT a candidate in the 1860 election?

The Whig Party divided into ______ on sectional lines.

Two groups below wanted Kansas to be a free state! Pick 1.

The _______ Party was anti immigrant and anti Catholic

________________ wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin and helped open people eyes to the horrors of slavery.

_______ was a politician originally born in Vermont but moved to Illinois for more opportunity.

Lincoln eventually decided to ______ to relieve Major Robert Anderson at Ft. Sumter.

Most Civil War soldiers were _____.

Stephen Douglas helped _____ pass the Compromise of 1850 bills through Congress.

How did the presidents of the 1850s deal with the problem of slavery?

The Fugitive Slave Act strengthened ____ of the Constitution by rewarding slave-catchers.

_____________________ says we have a duty to disobey unjust laws.

Confederate General ____ fired on Fort Sumter for 34 hours, beginning Civil War hostilities.

Under the Compromise of 1850, ___ entered the Union as a free state.

The Constitutional Union Party wanted to _____.

Pick 1 of the 2 abolitionists below who supported John Brown.

Abraham Lincoln believed that African Americans had ____ rights.

_ opposed Taney's majority opinion in Dred Scott that said Congress could not prohibit slavery.

The Dred Scott decision said African Americans did not have the right to _. 2 are correct.

The Republicans supported _____, which would open up millions of acres of govt land out west.

The Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 repealed the _______.

The Dred Scott decision said Congress did not have the power to ____.

After the passage of the K-N Act, _____ flooded into Kansas to try to make it a slave state.

The Fugitive Slave Act made the Underground Railroad extend all the way to ____.

John Brown, in his raid on Harper's Ferry, believed that ___ was on his side.

The slavery issue was NOT decided by popular sovereignty in _____.

The Republican Party supported increasing _____ to help people manufacturing goods in America.

Many consider John Brown a martyr because the cause he was fighting for was a _____ one.

______________ was the first state to secede from the Union in 1861.