Download Causes of the Civil War Review Game

What was the South’s economy
mostly based on in the 1800s?
What was the North’s economy
mostly based on in the 1800s?
A: agriculture
A: industry
What was the most controversial
issue of the 1800s in the United
States?
As far as what was best for the
country, the South believed in
______ while the North believed in
_______.
A: slavery/spread of slavery
What state was brought in as a
slave state under the Missouri
Compromise?
A: regionalism; nationalism
Where was slavery illegal under the
Missouri Compromise?
A: Missouri
A: northern territories; north of the
36’30 parallel
This new law was created in the
Compromise of 1850.
What were some western territories
allowed to do under the
Compromise of 1850?
A: Fugitive Slave Act
Why were Northern businessmen
so upset about the institution of
slavery in the south?
A: vote on slavery/popular
sovereignty
What was the South worried about
Northern abolitionists doing?
A: competing against free labor
A: encouraging slave
revolts/uprisings
This kind of tax is used to make
imports more expensive.
What was the latitude of the
Missouri Compromise line?
A: tariffs
A: 36’30
This state saw violence between pro
and anti-slavery settlers in the
1850’s.
A: Kansas
Name 3 border states.
A: Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland,
Delaware, West Virginia
Why did Northern states in
Congress want to pass tariffs on
European goods?
A: to force the South to buy
Northern goods
What did some Southern states
use to try and make the tariffs not
apply to them?
A: nullification
What state was admitted into the
Union as a free state under the
Compromise of 1850?
A: California
This statement given by the
General Assembly said that
Georgia wanted northern states to
strictly enforce the Fugitive Slave
Act.
A: Georgia Platform
The United States won new
territories in the west because of
this event.
A: Mexican-American War
This new law originally proposed
by Stephen Douglass allowed two
western territories to vote on
allowing slavery.
A: Kansas-Nebraska Act
Where was the site of the first Civil
War battle in 1861?
A: Ft. Sumter, S.C.
What was the first state to secede
from the Union in 1860?
This Senator from GA voted to not
have GA secede from the Union.
A: South Carolina
A: Alexander Stephens
This event was the “final straw” in
leading some southern states to
debate secession.
A: Election of 1860
Name two parts of the Supreme
Court’s ruling in the Dred Scott
case?
How many southern states did
Lincoln win in the presidential
election of 1860?
A: Ordinance of Nullification
A: Slaves are property; slaves can’t
sue their masters; all states are slave
states
A: Zero!
These people believed that slavery
was evil and that it should be
outlawed.
This GA governor wanted his state
to secede immediately from the
Union after the election of Lincoln.
A: abolitionists
A: Joseph E. Brown
South Carolina passed this law in
response to the “tariff of
abominations”.
The House of Representatives was
controlled by the North because
they had more representatives.
WHY?
A: more population/representation
is based on population
What did GA want the North to
stop doing in their Georgia
Platform?
A: stop banning slavery in
territories
How many southern states seceded
after the first battle of the Civil War
in 1861?
A: 4
This compromiser was responsible
for forging together the Missouri
Compromise and Compromise of
1850.
A: Sen. Henry Clay
Name the three candidates that
Lincoln ran against in the election
of 1860.
A: Douglas, Breckenridge, & Bell
Alexander Stephens received this
title after his home state of GA
seceded from the Union.
A: Vice President of the
Confederacy
President Andrew Jackson
threatened to do this if South
Carolina did not withdraw its
nullification.
A: invade the state
Under the Missouri Compromise,
this free state was created.
A: Maine
How many southern states seceded
after the election of 1860?
A: 7