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The Causes of the Civil War

Authored by Oriana Ruggiero

Social Studies

8th Grade

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The Causes of the Civil War
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A devotion to the interests of one geographic region over the interest of the country as a whole

SECTIONALISM

COMPROMISE OF 1850

FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT

DRED SCOTT DECISION

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Henry Clay's proposed agreement that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and divided the rest of the Mexican Cession into two territories where slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty.

SECTIONALISM

COMPROMISE OF 1850

FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT

DRED SCOTT DECISION

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders.

SECTIONALISM

COMPROMISE OF 1850

FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT

DRED SCOTT DECISION

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A slave whose court case led to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declared African Americans were not U.S. citizens, that the Missouri Compromise's restriction on slavery was unconstitutional, and that Congress did not have the right to ban slavery in any federal territory.

SECTIONALISM

COMPROMISE OF 1850

FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT

DRED SCOTT DECISION

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The idea that political authority belongs to the people.

POPULAR SOVREIGNTY

REPUBLICAN PARTY

FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT

DRED SCOTT DECISION

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A political party formed in the 1850s to stop the spread of slavery in the West.

POPULAR SOVREIGNTY

REPUBLICAN PARTY

FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT

DRED SCOTT DECISION

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The nation formed by the southern states when they seceded from the Union; also known as the Confederacy.

POPULAR SOVREIGNTY

REPUBLICAN PARTY

CONFEDERACY

KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT

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