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Causes of the Civil
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Why was the Missouri Compromise settled? | Missouri wanted to become a slave state, but that made the slave and free state power uneven in Congress. |
| What was the result of the Missouri Compromise? | Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Also, the 36*30 line was drawn between slave and free states. |
| How was the Missouri Compromise a cause of the Civil War? | Since the majority of the land was above the line, there was a possibility that there would be more free states from slave states. Also, because they were continuing the balance, the problem got bigger along with the divide over slavery. |
| What was the Compromise of 1850? | New Mexico & Utah were organized with popular sovereignty. California was made a free state,but the Fugitive Slave Law was passed and required the north to return any runaway slaves. DC bans slave trade. |
| How did the Compromise of 1850 help contribute to the Civil War? | There is an unbalance in Congress. |
| What was Uncle Tom's Cabin? | Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the book. It was about the hardships that the slaves went through. It manipulates people’s emotions so they would act and do something about slavery because she brought out the real meaning of slavery to the Union’s eyes. |
| How did Uncle Tom's Cabin help cause the Civil War? | The book was found as offending to the South and divided sides even more. |
| What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act? | The compromise opened up the land and the population had popular sovereignty. More and more people came in (pro and anti slavery groups) to vote. Then fighting breaks out, leading to Bleeding Kansas. |
| How was the Kansas-Nebraska Act a cause of the Civil War? | It was the first time that people started solving problems with guns and not words. |
| What was the Dred Scott Decision? | Dred Scott wanted to sue his master because his master moved to a free state. This case went all the way to the Supreme Court, and the court decided that African Americans can’t sue or go to court because they aren’t citizens, they are property. |
| How was the Dred Scott Decision a cause of the Civil War? | The slave owners now have the right to bring their "property" into any state because the government can't tell them they can't bring property with them. |
| What was John Brown and Harper's Ferry? | John brown was a radical abolitionist. He wanted to raid a federal armory in hope that the slaves would join in so they could supply the slaves to fight for their freedom. He doesn’t succeed because no slaves came to help. |
| How was this a cause of the Civil War? | The abolitionists took Brown's execution as the government supporting slavery and that he was killed because he wanted to abolish slavery. But he was really executed because he broke a federal law. |
| What were the Lincoln-Douglas Debates? | They were running for Illinois Senate seat. They were about who should determine if a state is free or slave. Douglas’s opinion was that the citizens should have popular sovereignty, but Lincoln believed that it’s the federal government’s decision. |
| How were the debates a cause of the Civil War? | The south didn't like either option. |
| How did Lincoln's election cause the Civil war? | No one in the south voted for lincoln and the felt powerless. |
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