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Causes of the Civil War

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  • Who was the president of the Confederate States of America?
    Ulysses S. Grant
    Abraham Lincoln
    Jefferson Davis
    Robert E. Lee
  • Which side wanted to keep slavery?
    The Union
    The Confederacy
  • Who won the presidential election of 1860?
    Frederick Douglass
    Jefferson Davis
    Stephen Douglas
    Abraham Lincoln
  • Which thing did the Kansas-Nebraska Act NOT do?
    Repealed the Missouri Compromise.
    Let both territories decide if they would be slave or free.
    Created two new territories.
    Forced Kansas & Nebraska to have slaves.
  • What is the name of the group of states that wanted to own slaves?
    The Hillbillies
    The Confederacy
    White Supremacists
    Abraham Lincoln Haters
  • What did the Supreme Court rule in the Dred Scott decision?
    Dred Scott will die a slave.
    Dred Scott's owner should release him.
    Slaves should be freed immediately.
    Slaves are property and do not have rights as Americans.
  • What is another term for the Union?
    Those Flag People
    The United States
    The Anti-Hillbillies
    The Country
  • Which thing did the Kansas-Nebraska Act NOT do?
    Created two new territories.
    Let both territories decide if they would be slave or free.
    Repealed the Missouri Compromise.
    Forced Kansas & Nebraska to have slaves.
  • What did abolitionists want to do?
    Arrest everyone with slaves
    Have more slaves
    End slavery
    Ship slaves elsewhere
  • What was John Brown's goal when he broke into the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry?
    Start a war between pro-slavery and anti-slavery people.
    Murder the masters himself.
    Arm the slaves so they can murder their masters.
    Start the Civil War early.
  • What was Popular Sovereignty?
    When the president is very popular.
    The authority of a government comes from the people.
    How King George III ruled over the colonists.
    The reason colonists broke away from England.