Causes of the Civil War STAAR Review

Southerners opposed high __________.

• commissions

• cash crops

• states' rights

• tariffs

The __________ of the South was based on plantation agriculture, which relied on slavery. Plantations mostly grew cotton.

• economy

• government

• tariffs

• sectionalism

The 2 key words for the Nullification Crisis are federal law and...

• slavery

• state

• spoils system

• ignore

Who were the 1st anti-slavery group that lived in Pennsylvania?

• Catholics

• Cherokee

• Pilgrims

• Quakers

Which novel led to the growth of the abolitionist movement in the North?

• Common Sense

• Nature

• Defence of Fort McHenry

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

The Missouri Compromise tried to maintain the balance between slave states and free states.

• True

• False

Match the words with the correct definition.

• compromise

• the idea that the people in a territory should vote to allow slavery

• civil war

• to formally discuss an issue

• debate

• an agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions

• popular sovereignty

• a person who has escaped from a place or is in hiding, especially to avoid arrest

• fugitive

• a war between opposing groups of citizens from the same country

In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court ruled that (select two)

• slaves could never become citizens

• Dred Scott must be freed

• black people were property

• human beings were not property

​ (a)   was the first state to vote to secede from the Union.

• South Carolina
• Georgia
• New York
• Tennessee

Even though his name was not on the ballot in most Southern states, (a)   won the election of 1860.

• Abraham Lincoln
• John Bell
• Stephen Douglas
• John Breckenridge