Causes of the Civil War

Question 1

Whig Party

Answer 1

-Clay and Webster’s party
-members had moral objections to slavery

Question 2

Popular sovereignty

Answer 2

states and territories would decide fro themeselves regarding slavery

Question 3

arsenal

Answer 3

weapons are stored here

Question 4

secede

Answer 4

to leave

Question 5

fugitive

Answer 5

runaway slave/ runaway criminal

Question 6

Border Ruffians

Answer 6

pro-slavery/ cross broders and cause negative things to happen

Question 7

Underground Railroad

Answer 7

where slaves would secrectly leave to freedom

Question 8

Abolitionist

Answer 8

a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery.

Question 9

Antebellum period

Answer 9

1812-1861

Question 10

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 11

Dred Scott Decision

Question 12

Bleeding Kansas

Question 13

Publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 14

Missouri Compromise 1820

Question 15

Compromise of 1850

Question 16

Wilmot Proviso

Question 17

Raid on Harpers Ferry, VA, 1859

Question 18

Fugitive Slave law

Question 19

Confederate States of America

Question 20

Battle of Ft. Sumter

Question 21

Invention of Cotton Gin

Question 22

Stephan Douglas

Answer 22

Illinois Senator behind Kansas- Nebraska Act and Compromise of 1850

Question 23

Dred Scott

Answer 23

Slave who’s freedom was taken away in Supreme court case

Question 24

John Brown

Answer 24

Radical Abolitionist

Question 25

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 25

wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin

Question 26

David Wilmot

Answer 26

Congressman from PA who introduced Wilmot Proviso

Question 27

Fredrick Douglass

Answer 27

Runaway slave and leader of Abolitionaist movement

Question 28

Harriet Tubman

Answer 28

a conductor of the Underground Railroad

Question 29

Jefferson Davis

Answer 29

-former senate of South Carolina -leader of conferderate states of America

Question 30

Eli Whitney

Answer 30

inventor of the cotton gin

Question 31

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 31

16th president and leader of the Republican (GOP) party (in favor of Union)