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Causes of Civil War
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Question | Answer |
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Who was our 16 president? | Abraham Lincoln |
Who won the election of 1860 | Abraham Lincoln |
What did Abraham Lincoln promise to do? | He promised not to abolish slavery where it already existed. He also said that slavery would not expand and it would die out |
Did Lincoln win almost all of the free states? 40% of the popularity | Yes |
Did the south feel threatedned by when lincoln said that slavery would die out? | yes |
Did the south secede from the union because of Lincolns adress | yes |
Why was Abraham Lincoln a cause of civil war. | The south didn't agree with what Lincoln said. They wanted slavery to expand and not die out. South Carolina seceded from the Union. |
How many electoral votes did Lincoln win in the North | all |
How many electoral votes did Lincoln win in the south | none |
Who became a state because of the Missouiri Compromise? | Missouri and Maine |
The Missouri Compromise is the balance of | free and slave states |
What did equal amount of free and slave states allow for | equal balence in Congress. |
Did the Missour Compromise allow for future addition of states | yes |
WHy was the Missouir Compromise a cause of the civil war | If there was an unequal amount of free and slave territories it would cause the states to be upset. It caused an unequal balence of congress. |
WHy did they have to create a new compromise | when you exteneded the missouri compromise border it would split california into 2. |
In the compromise of 1850 what tyoe of state would california join as? | free |
Would the rest of the Mexican cession be popular soverenty | yes |
Would texas give up land east of the rio grande and slavery be limited. | yes |
Slave trade is banned where because of the Compromise of 1850 | DC |
what law would be passed because of the compromise of 1850 | fugitive slave law |
WHy was the south not happy with the Compromise of 1850? | texas would limit slavery and california wouldn't allow slavery |
Did the south want to trade slaves in DC but couldnt | yes |
WHy wasnt the north not happy with the compromise of 1850? | because of the fugitive slave law. They said that the slaves ahdrights and they were in free land and they couldn't be captured. |
Why did the compromise of 1850 cause cicvil war. | North and south couldn't come up with compromise about slavery that would please everyone. |
WHat areas would become into 2 places in the kansas-nebraska act? | kansas and nebraska |
In the kansas-nebraska act how was slave solved | The skave issue would be solved by popular soveriginty |
WHen was the kansas-nebraska act passed? | 1854 |
WHy did the kansas-nebraska act cause civil war? | north wasn't haooy wih the pro-slavery people flooded into kansas. |
What did the pro slaveyr people want to do | they wanted to sway the vote and make it so kansas bcme a slave state. |
Were the people in kansas who voted live there | no they flooded in |
did the kansas nebraska act cause what | bleeding kansas |
Were there many attacks and a lot of people died | yes |
What did john brown want to do? | steal weapons, take hostage citizens of the town, then send his people to free slaves. |
Was john brown arrested | yes he was and he was tried for treason. He was also hanged. |
John Brown was also part of bleeding kansas because he masacered 5 pro slavery people. He was willing to use violence to fight slavery. | true |
What did john brown plan cause cause. | More people bing abolishnist |
What did the abolishnest want to do? | they wanted to help slaves get to Canada because they are a different country and have abolished slavery. |
WHy did the john brown plan be a cause of civil war.? | The north and south was unable to come to a desision about slaveyr. It was imposible |
WHo was dred scott? | he was a slave owned by Dr. Emerson? |
What did Dred Scott want to do? | He wanted tosue for his freedom because he had lived on free soil? |
How did Dred Scott cause civil war? | The supreme court said that slaves arnt citizens which means they dont have rights, and when they don't have rights to sue federal court, which leads him to remaining a slave. |
Does congress have a right to restrict what the person does to therir property | nope |
WHy did Dred scott plead to civil war? | It lead to natinal anger between the people. North was shocked so they dont feel like they should listen to the laws. |
WHat did the fugitive slave act make it a crime to do | help runaway slaves. |
Official could what | they could arrest slaves in free area. If they helped a slave you would be in jail for 6 months or be fined 1000. |
WHat would happen if you were suspected to be a runaway slave | You would be arrested without a warrent and turned in on nothing more than the owner who said they had ownership of you |
Did runaway slaves have access to trial | no they didnt. |
Because of the fugitive slave act what being more popular | underground railroads and abolisnist became more active. |
Why did the fugitive slave act lead to civil war? | The north wasn't happy. |
What did the north say about slaves. | They said that the slaves were on free ground so they should be free. They weren't happy about how the union was handeling it. |
Because of the fugitiv slave act what did the north wnt to do acagast the south? | Theyw wanted to go to war. |
The fugitive slave act was a cause becayse | the north and south couldn't agree so the south would break off and no one was happy. |
The southerers would come to the north to capture the slaves because of the fugutive slave act. | true . |
The election of 1860 happened what did lincon promise when he won? | he promised to not abolish slavery where it already existed. |
The south wasn't happy because of what? | that slavery wouldnt spread and that lincon said he wannted to die out. The south was threatened by this? |
Who was our 16 president? | Abraham Lincoln. |
WHen the election of 1860 what happened? | the south seceded confederate of america |
What did lincoln say about the south seceding? | lincoln wouldn't give goverment land to states that seceded. The south wasn't happy. |
Why was the election of 1860 a cause of civil war? | south wasnt happy with lincoln becoming president because they dint want salvery to die out. |
Was the north happy about slaveery dying out | yes |
Did the north and south ahve different views about slaveyr | yes |
The north wanted the whole us to have there view but the south wnted there view to be the whole view | yes |