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1. Seceding states believed that they had to leave the Union in order
to do what?
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following question.
Causes of the Civil War
The Long-term Causes
Sectional economic and cultural
differences
Debate over expansion of slavery into
the territories
Political compromises failed to ease
sectional differences and resolve
questions of expanding slavery
Missouri
Compromise (1820)
Compromise of
1850
Kansas-Nebraska
Act (1854)
Laws increased sectional tension
Fugitive Slave Act
(1850)
Dred Scott decision
Tariff policy
Growth of the anti-slavery movement
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Short-term
Causes
Kansas-Nebraska Act
splits political parties
Breakdown of the
party system
Lincoln elected
president
South Carolina
secedes
2. What long-term causes directly influenced short-term causes?
3. After the Emancipation Proclamation, many African Americans
did what?
4. How did sharecroppers pay the rent for the land they used?
5. Why was the Battle of Antietam important to the Civil War?
6. Describe the 13th Amendment.
7. How did the South attempt to compensate for its disadvantages?
8. How could Northern advantages primarily be categorized?
9. What is one geographic advantage the South had over the North
during the Civil War?
10. What did Dred Scott give as the reason he should be free?
11. What was the goal of Reconstruction?
12. What was a key problem with the sharecropping system?
13. What did the south enact in the years immediately following the
Civil War?
14. What was the outcome of the impeachment proceedings against
President Johnson?
15. Why was Vicksburg a strategic location for a Union victory?
16. Why did John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry fail?
17. Describe the South’s economy at the end of the Civil War.
18. What were the Black Codes?
19. Describe Sherman’s March to the Sea.
20. Why did the House of Representatives impeach President
Johnson?
21. The election of 1860 showed that the North and the South were
two distinct political entities. How does the map above show this?
22. How did Hayes’s election effectively end Reconstruction?
23. The Missouri Compromise line was 36º30’N latitude. Slavery
was prohibited above this line in what territory?
24. The crisis over the Missouri Compromise exposed thewhat flaw
in American society?
25. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncles Tom’s Cabin infuriated the
South due to what reasons?
26. Under the new Fugitive Slave Act passed in 1850, Southerners
could do what?
27. The Supreme Court said that because the US Constitution
protected people for having their property taken by the
government…
28. During Reconstruction, groups such as the Ku Klux Klan
committed what actions?
29. Which of the following was a strategy of the Confederate
government?
Use the chart and your knowledge of social studies to answer the
following questions.
30. How was the issue of slavery decided in the territory ceded by
Mexico?
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31. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 angered Northerners due to what
reasons?
32. What events directly caused the outbreak of the Civil War?
33. Reconstruction was successful in what ways?
34. What was nullified by the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
35. In the late 1840s, what led to the question of whether slavery
should expand to the territories?
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41. Describe the 14th Amendment
42. Why did the Freedmen’s Bureau have to take back land they had
given to freed slaves?
43. Why did South Carolina secede from the Union?
44. The Freedmen’s Bureau was meant to help what group of people?
45. What did the Wilmot Proviso ask for?
46. The territories of the Mexican Cession received popular
sovereignty. What does this mean?
47. Why was abolitionist John Brown executed?
48. The term “Bleeding Kansas” can be attributed to what?
49. What was Abolitionists belief on slavery?
50. The Emancipation Proclamation freed who?
36. What was the final Northern destination for most people escaping
slavery on the Underground Railroad?
37. How did African Americans support the war effort?
38. During the Reconstruction Era (1865-1877), the 15th amendment
was adopted to grant African American males what right?
39. After the Battle of Gettysburg, the South never attempted to do
what again?
40. Using your knowledge and the textbook, fillout the missing block
with the correct event.
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