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Causes of civil war
Question | Answer |
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What was Missouri and Maine admitted as | Missouri slave state Maine free state |
How did the Missouri compromise lead to war | Continues the status quo of keeping free and slave equal |
What did California enter as | A Free state |
What does Utah and New Mexico have a choice of doing | right to choose free or slave |
What does D.C. ban | The slave trade |
How did the compromise of 1850 lead to war | Ends the status quo of trying to keep Free and Slave equal |
What does uncle toms cabin describe | The hard life of a slave |
Why did Harriet write the novel | in reaction to recently tightened fugitive slave law |
How did it lead to war | Encourages the North to rethink slavery, but it enrages the south |
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act | Pro and antislavery groups fled kansas to swing the vote. Conflicts between the two groups breaks out into blood shed. “Bleeding Kansas” |
How did it lead to war | A shift from a fight of words to a fight with physical violence |
Why did dred scott want to sue his master | For Freedom |
What did the supreme court say | slaves were property and not citizens |
How did it lead to war | With this decision there are no more free states |
Who was john brown | He was an abolitionist |
What happened with his army | The slaves didn't join him in the fight |
What happened to john brown | He was caught, tried, and hung |
How did this lead to war | Brown’s raid helped make any further accommodation between North and South nearly impossible |
Why was Lincoln and Douglas debating | Both were running for Senate seat and Who could determine a state to be free or slave? |
What did Douglas believe in | Douglas believed in popular sovereignty |
What did Lincoln think | thinks that its up to the Federal Government |
Who won the debate | Douglas |
How did it lead to war | The South felt uneasy about both arguments |
Who did the northern democrats pick | Stephen Douglas |
Who did the southern democrats pick | John C.Breckenridge |
Who did the republicans pick | Abraham Lincoln |
Who did the unconstitutional Union pick | John Bell |
How did it lead to war | Not one Southern state voted for Lincoln. Afraid lincoln will ban slavery |