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Causes of the Civil
Causes of the Civil War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| John Brown led a raid where? | On a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia |
| What created a break in the Democractic party during the 1860 presidential election | The issue of slavery |
| Who was chosen as the Know-Nothings candidate for President in the 1856 presidential election | Millard Fillmore |
| What banned slavery in any lands the US acquired from Mexico | The Wilmot Proviso |
| Who was the first president of the Confederate States of America? | Jefferson Davis |
| What Supreme Court case ruled that the Constitution protected slavery? | Dred Scott Decision |
| South Carolina | was the first state to vote to secede from the Union. |
| Attack on Fort Sumter marked what? | The beginning of the Civil War |
| Border ruffians refers to ? | Pro-slavery activists who crossed the Kansas border to vote. |
| In what state did rival pro-slavery and antislavery governments exist at the same time? | Kansas |
| What political party grew quickly due to its anti-immigrant views | American Party |
| Name used in 1856 newspaper stories about events in Lawrence, Kansas | "Bleeding Kansas" |
| John Brown was a... | violent abolitionist |
| What act put the issue of slavery to popular vote | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| Line that marked the division between slave states and non-slave states | 36'30' North Latitude |
| Popular sovereignty was proposed as an alternative to ... | The Missouri Compromise |
| Lincoln was largely unknown before the congressional election of? | 1858 |
| Stephen Douglas accused Lincoln of | wanting African Americans to be fully equal to whites. |
| What party did the Antislavery Whigs, Democrats and Free-Soilers join together to form | Republican Party |
| Secessionists used ___ to support their views | States' rights |
| The North was more _____________ than the South which allowed Lincoln to win the election of 1860. | Populous ( populated) |
| What is the name for a war between citizens of the same country? | Civil War |
| Popular sovereignty would decided slavery in the rest of the Mexican Cession. Ended the slave trade in DC, A stronger fugitive slave law known as the Fugitive Slave Act. California would enter as a free state were all components of the ? | Compromise of 1850 |
| How did the Republican party view slavery? | They wanted to ban it in the new territories and leave slavery alone where it existed. |
| What did white Southerns believe about Republicans in the 1860 election? | That a victory by Lincoln and the Republicans would interfere with slavery and promote slave revolts. |
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