Causes Of The Civil War

Question 0

James Lane

Answer 0

Led anti-slave settlers to Kansas.

Called “The army of the north”

Question 1

John Brown

Answer 1

Anti-slave

Raid against Harpers Ferry

Question 2

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 2

Republican president during the civil war.

Question 3

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 3

Kansas and Missouri battle over slavery

Question 4

Compromise of 1850

Answer 4

1. New Mexico & Utah will vote on slavery.
2. Fugitive Slave Law
3. Slavery is legal D.C. But the slave trade is illegal.
4. California in admitted as a free state.

Question 5

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Answer 5

Scott, a slave, sued for his freedom, Supreme Court ruled that he is property, and the U.S. Can’t deny a person their property.

Question 6

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 6

1. Kansas and Nebraska will vote on slavery.

2. A railroad will go through the northern states.

Question 7

Raid on Harpers Ferry

Answer 7

In 1859 John Brown caused a slave revolt and attacked the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, VA.

Question 8

Border Ruffian

Answer 8

Missourians that voted illegally on the Kansas constitution.

Question 9

Fort Sumpter

Answer 9

U.S. Fort in confederate territory.
After the south seceded, the confederates cut off supplies to the fort. Lincoln sent in an unarmed supply boat, and the confederates attacked.
Beginning of the civil war.