Causes to the Civil War

This case was brought before the Supreme Court involving a slave who wanted his freedom. The Court decided African Americans CAN'T be citizens and can't sue in federal court.

• Dred Scott Decision

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

What event led South Carolina to be the first state to secede from the Union?

• Dred Scott Decision

• Bleeding Kansas

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Lincoln is Elected President

What political party was Lincoln a member of?

• Democrats

• Republicans

• Federalists

• Democratic-Republicans

This person led a raid at Harper's Ferry, VA in an attempt to rob the armory and steal weapons to fight against slavery.

• Abraham Lincoln
• Nat Turner
• John Brown
• Harriet Tubman

What was the effect of John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry?

• The North made John Brown a general.
• John Brown was given an award.
• It drew the North and South together.
• John Brown was hanged.

Who became the president in the election of 1860?

• Ulysses S. Grant
• Abraham Lincoln
• Thomas Jefferson
• James Madison

Secede means to.....

• join
• get rid of
• come together
• seperate

This was where the first shots of the Civil War were fired. 

• Battle of Bull Run
• Battle of Gettysburg
• Battle of Fort Sumter
• Battle of Chickamauga

Southerners fought in the Civil War to protect their

• 2nd Amendment Rights
• State's Rights
• Voting Rights

Who did Lincoln debate that made him famous for going against the issue of popular sovereignty?

• Fredrick Douglas

• Stephen Douglas

• Dred Scott

• Harriet Tubman