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Causes of the CW
Causes of the Civil War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Name of someone who wants to end slavery | abolitionist |
| This kept the balance of slave and free states and established the 36"30 parallel (anything North of it is free/any state south is slave). | Missouri Compromise |
| This book upset Northerners because it exposed the horrors of slavery. | Uncle Toms Cabin |
| Lincoln belonged to this political party and supported the abolition of slavery. This party also replaced the Whig Party | Republican |
| These people wanted to secede no matter what. | secessionist |
| John C. Calhoun did not support _________ during the Nullification Crisis. | tariffs |
| What was the first state to secede? | South Carolina |
| _____________ won the election of 1860, even though he did not get many votes from the South. | AbrahamLincoln |
| Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Use full name. | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Planned to arm slaves by raiding a federal arsenal in Harper's Ferry, VA. | JohnBrown |
| Abolitionist and feminist who was born on a plantation in SC. | Angelina Grimke |
| SC Warhawk who fiercely believed in states' rights and was Vice President. | John Calhoun |
| Planned to kill the governor of Charleston, burn the city, and free all African Americans by boarding a ship to escape. | Denmark Vesey |
| After the Revolutionary War people felt a strong sense of ___________________. | Nationalism |
| The period before the Civil War was the ______________ period. | Antebellum |
| Regional loyalty. | Sectionalism |
| The Missouri Compromise brought in _____________ as a free state. | Maine |
| The Missouri Compromise brought in __________ as a slave state. | Missouri |
| Many people believed in _____________________ ________________, the God given right to expand all the way to the Pacific Coast. | Manifest Destiny |
| SC was upset by the Tariff of Abominations, which led to ________ _________, in which the SC declare the law unconstitutional. | Nullification Crisis |
| During the Compromise of 1850, the government added the ________ ___________ _________, which declared it illegal to help an escaped slave even in a free state. | Fugitive Slave Act |
| A system by which incoming states gets to decide if they will be a free or slave state. | popular sovereignty |
| Things turned violent when a SC man named ______________ beat __________________ unconscious with his cane on the Senate floor. | Brooks Sumner |
| What was the Supreme Court case where the Supreme Court ruled that slaves were not citizens and the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional? | Dredd Scott Decision |
| SC continued to have tensions with the North and abolitionists, and plan to _______________. | seceed |
| Kansas was known as __________________ because of all the fighting over the issue of slavery. | Bleeding Kansas |
| _______________________ party favored states' rights and slavery. | Democratic |
| The Compromise of 1850 added _____________ as a free state. | California |
| The Compromise of 1850, allowed slavery in the Washington D.C., but outlawed slave ______________. | trade |
| An escaped slave who could read and write and became a speaker and advocate for the abolition of slavery. | Fredrick Douglass |
| Name the three causes of the Civil War . | States' Rights, Sectionalism, and Slavery |
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