Causes of the Civil War

The South was a  major producer of the cotton used in northern mills.  This influenced what?

•  The economic development of the United States?
• The education system in the South
• The abolitionist movement in the South
• The increase in T-shirt sales in the U.S.

 May people feared the admission of new slave states.  Therefore, many abolitionists were against what?

• Admitting South Carolina as a slave state
• Supported an isolationist foreign policy
• were against the annexation of new Western territory
• Moving to Canada

"Am I to argue that it is wrong to make men brutes, to rob them of their liberty, to work them without wages, to keep them ignorant of their relations to their fellow men, to beat them with sticks, to [lash] their flesh with a [whip], to load their limbs with irons, to hunt them with dogs, to sell them at auction, to [break up] their families, to knock out their teeth, to burn their flesh, to starve them into obedience to their masters?  Must I argue that a system marked with blood is wrong?  No-I will no."                                                                   A speech to citizens of Rochester, New York on July 4, 1852
Who would have given this kind of speech?

• Frederick Douglass
• Robert E. Lee
• John C. Calhouln
• John Wilkes Booth

What did these developments have in common?

• They wanted to end the abolitionists movement
• They sought changes to end slavery
• They thought that Texas should secede
• They wanted Abe Lincoln to resign

In 1854, SpongeBob, a fugitive slave from South Carolina, was arrested in Boston and returned to South Carolina. Which federal legislation provided the basis for Sponge's arrest?

• The Kansas Nebraska Act
• The Election of Lincoln
• The Compromise of 1850
• The Raid on Harper's Ferry

Fighting broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in Kansas.  This was known as what cause of the Civil War?

• The Compromise of 1850
• The Dred Scott decision
• Kansas Nebraska Act
• The Fighting of Nebraska

What Court Case would match these headlines?

• McCulloch v. Maryland
• Dred Scott v. Sandford
• Worcester v. Georgia
• Gibbons v. Ogden

The Three-Fifths Compromise outlined the process for states to count slaves as?  

• Part of the population in order to determine representation and taxation for the federal government. 
• Part of congress 
• Part of the undustrial development of the North.
• Part of westward expansion and the Gold rush

He represented the interests of the North, supported the High Protective Tariff, opposed the spread of slavery into new territories,  supported the Compromise of 1850, and faced Abraham Lincoln in a series of debates.

• John Quincy Adams
• Stephen A Douglass
• Daniel Webster
• Abraham Lincoln

The Compromise of 1850 allowed certain territories to use___________________________ to determine whether the territory would be free or slave.  This decision applied to much of the land gained from the the U.S. Mexican War.

• Three Fifths Compromise
• Raiding
• Popular sovereignty 
• Secession