Causes of Civil War

Question 1

Compromise of 1820

Answer 1

• admission of Maine (free)
• admission of Missouri (slave)
• banned slavery north of 36’30
• BEGINNING OFSECTIONAL CONFLICT

Question 2

Compromise of 1860

Answer 2

• admission of Californina (free)
• reinstates Fugitive Slave act as a federal law
• led to Bleeding Kansas bc of popular sovereignty

Question 3

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 3

Small civil war b/t pro/anti slavery advocates for control over Kansas under doctrine of popular sovereignty

Question 4

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 4

Established Kansas and Nebraska, along with popular sovereignty

Question 5

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 5

Lets states decide to join the union as free or slave

MAIN REASON FOR CIVIL WAR

Question 6

Manifest Destiny

Answer 6

God given right to expansion (validation)

Slavery disputes of new territory

Question 7

Harper’s Ferry

Answer 7

An assault by abolitionists led by John Brown

Convinced slaveholders that abolitionists would stop at nothing to end slavery

Main event leading to war

Question 8

Dred Scott Decision

Answer 8

slaves are “property”, was not entitled to his freedom

African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the United States - cannot sue

Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional - it had no power to forbid or abolish slavery in the territories