What Caused The Civil War?

Question 1

When was the cotton gin invented?

Answer 1

1793

Question 2

Did the cotton gin increase or decrease the number of slaves?

Answer 2

Increase

Question 3

What year was the Louisiana purchase?

Answer 3

1803

Question 4

How did the north react to the larger cotton kingdom?

Answer 4

They were very angry

Question 5

When was the Mousouri compromise?

Answer 5

1820

Question 6

What did the Missouri compramise state?

Answer 6

States had to join the USA in pairs, one slave state and one free

Question 7

Which two people formed the anti slave society?

Answer 7

William Lloyd-Garrison and Arthur Tappan

Question 8

How many members was there apart of the Anti slavery society in 1838?

Answer 8

250,000

Question 9

Who made up the anti slavery society?

Answer 9

Formally Enslaved people

Question 10

Which two former slaves set up the Underground Railroad?

Answer 10

Frederick Douglass and Harriet Turbman

Question 11

When did congress vote to ban slavery in new territories?

Answer 11

1846

Question 12

What 5th of a person did a slave count as?

Answer 12

3/5

Question 13

What did the fugitive slave act state?

Answer 13

All escaped slaves must return to their slave owner

Question 14

When was the clay compromise accepted?

Answer 14

1850

Question 15

When was the Kansas Nebraska act?

Answer 15

1854

Question 16

What did the Kansas Nebraska act overturn?

Answer 16

The Missouri compromise

Question 17

How many people were killed in Bleeding Kansas?

Answer 17

200

Question 18

When did James Buchanan become president?

Answer 18

1856

Question 19

Did James Buchanan support or disagree with slavery?

Answer 19

Agree

Question 20

Did James Buchanan allow the spread of slavery into the north?

Answer 20

Yes, large plantations were set up there

Question 21

Which republican candidate was supported in the next election in 1860?

Answer 21

Abraham Lincoln

Question 22

Did Abraham Lincoln agree with slavery?

Answer 22

No

Question 23

What was Abraham Lincoln seen as “a ______ of the working people”?

Answer 23

Champion

Question 24

What did Lincoln promise in 1860?

Answer 24

Give free land to western settlers and prevent the spread of slavery

Question 25

Where would the new transcontinental railroad that Lincoln promised run through?

Answer 25

The north

Question 26

What did Lincoln’s win mean for the deputy?

Answer 26

They felt it was “The end of slavery”

Question 27

What did the south say they’d do after Lincoln won?

Answer 27

They would secede from the USA and start their own country with their own rights

Question 28

What happened in South Carolina in November 1860?

Answer 28

They voted 169/0 to secede from the usa

Question 29

How many other states voted to secede from the USA?

Answer 29

6 more

Question 30

What did the seceded states claim about Lincoln?

Answer 30

He no longer represents their interests

Question 31

What was the new seceded country called?

Answer 31

The confederacy

Question 32

Who led the new government in the confederacy?

Answer 32

Slave owner, Jefferson Davis

Question 33

What did Jefferson Davis argue?

Answer 33

Any state had the right to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy

Question 34

When was fort sumpter attacked?

Answer 34

April 1861

Question 35

What did Lincoln say in a speech he made in march 1861?

Answer 35

It was illegal for the south to leave the USA, all government buildings and army forts still belonged to the government.

Question 36

What date was the attack on fort sumpter?

Answer 36

12th April 1861

Question 37

What happened on the 15th April 1861?

Answer 37

Lincoln asked loyal troops to go and stop the rebellion to bring confederacy back into the USA. Now, the US was at war with itself!