Causes of Civil War Sumter

Multiple Choice

What did Uncle Tom’s Cabin convince the North of?

• That it was ok to own a slave

• That you shouldn’t have more than two slaves

• That Uncle Tom had a nice cabin

• That slavery was wrong

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What was the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott case?

• That slavery diminished the national character.

• That African American rights were protected by the Constitution.

• That African Americans did not have the right to sue in federal court because they were not citizens

• That slavery should be abolished by executive order

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What Claim Did Dred Scott Sue With?

• Slavery Is Illegal

• Since He Had Once Lived In An Anti-Slavery Area He Would Always Be Free

• No One Should be a Slave or Own Slaves.

• People with Slaves Should be Prosecuted

Multiple Choice

The Dred Scott decision...

• angered southerners, satisfied northerners.

• satisfied southerners, angered northerners.

• promoted the abolitionist movement.

• resulted in a compromise between the North & South.

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What caused Southern States to secede from the Union?

• The Election of Lincoln in 1860

• The Dred Scott Decision

• Harper's Ferry

• Bleeding Kansas

Multiple Choice

The Election of 1860 was won by the...

• Republican Party
• Northern Democratic Party
• Southern Democratic Party
• Constitutional Union Party

Multiple Choice

What was Lincoln's main reason for fighting in the war?

• to get rid of slavery

• to bring the British and French to America

• to show his strength as a president

• to preserve the Union

Multiple Choice

Confederates attacked this fort, and the Union surrendered. First shots of the war

• Bull Run/ Manassas

• Antietam

• Appomattox Courhouse

• Ft. Sumter

The Anaconda Plan

• Anaconda plan, military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott

• plan called for a naval blockade of the Confederate coast, a thrust down the Mississippi, and the strangulation(choking) of the South by Union land and naval forces.

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Which are part of the Anaconda Plan?

• Invasion of South Carolina from the Coast

• Blockade Confederate coast

• Push down through Appalachian Mountains

• Push forces up Mississippi River

Battle of Fort Sumter

• Fort Sumter, SC was the site of the first attack of the American Civil War, on April 12, 1861. 

• Several Southern states had seceded from, or left, the Union. The Confederate states claimed control over the forts within their borders, including Fort Sumter.

• They called for the U.S. troops at those forts to leave immediately. But President  Lincoln refused to order the troops to do so.

• April 12, 1861, Confederate forces began firing on Fort Sumter. After 34 hours, the U.S. troops in the fort surrendered. 

• The troops marched out, waving the U.S. flag, on April 14. Confederate troops then took over the fort. Northern forces bombarded the fort many times until the Civil War ended in 1865.

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What is true about Battle of Fort Sumter? (Checl all that apply)

• First site of attack in the Civil War

• Started the Civil War

• President Lincoln ordered his troops to abandon the Fort

• The Fort was located in South Carolina

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What is sectionalism?

• When people of a country are united around a common cause

• When people from different regions of a country care more about their region than the unity of the country

• When the economy hits a downturn because of a lack of trade between regions

• When there are parts of the country that separate (secede)

Causes of Civil War

• North vs South

  • North known for industry (factories)

  • South - agriculture dependent on slavery

• Missouri Compromise - MO slave state/ ME free state

• Nullification Crisis - SC nullified tariff & threatened secession

• Compromise of 1850 - Cali free state/Fugitive Slave Act

  • GA platform - conditional acceptance of Comp.

• Scott v. Sanford - denied freedom/citizenship & slavery legalized

• Election of 1860 - dems split 3 ways/ Repub Lincoln elected

• Georgia's Secession - not unanimous - Alexander Stephens against

Match

Match the following

• Differences in the North and South

• Nullification Crisis

• Compromise of 1850

• Dred Scott Case/Scott v. Sanford

• Election of 1860

Industrial vs Agricultural Based Economy

South Carolina resisted over tariff

California admitted as a free state.

banishment of Slavery unconstitutional

Republican Abraham Lincoln victorious

• Industrial vs Agricultural Based Economy

• South Carolina resisted over tariff

• California admitted as a free state.

• banishment of Slavery unconstitutional

• Republican Abraham Lincoln victorious