Causes of the civil war

Question 1

What was the cotton gin

Answer 1

Machine that sped up the processing of cotton

Question 2

What year was the cotton gin made

Answer 2

1793

Question 3

Which states were slave states after the Louisiana purchase

Answer 3

Louisiana
Alabama Mississsipi

Question 4

What was the Missouri Compromise

Answer 4

States had to join the US in pairs- one a slave state and the other one free

Question 5

Who formed the Anti-Slavery society

Answer 5

William Lloyd-Garrison
Arthur Tappan

Question 6

How many members were in the Anti-Slavery society

Answer 6

250,000 members by 1838

Question 7

Who set up the Underground Railroad

Answer 7

Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman

Question 8

What was the Underground Railroad

Answer 8

Helped smuggle escaped slaves to freedom

Question 9

What did congress vote to ban in 1846

Answer 9

Voted to ban slavery in any new territories
Slavery was not allowed in the West

Question 10

What did Henry Clay suggest

Answer 10

California should enter as a free state
Territories gained from Mexico should make their own decisions

Question 11

What was the Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 11

Agreed to return slaves to their owners
Victory for slave owners

Question 12

What did the Kansas-Nebraska act mean

Answer 12

Overturned the Missouri compromise
Allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide wether they wanted to be slave states

Question 13

What happened at bleeding Kansas

Answer 13

Violence between pro and anti-slavery
200 people killed in violence

Question 14

What year did James Buchanan become president

Answer 14

1856

Question 15

What did James Buchanan believe

Answer 15

Supported spread of slavery above Missouri compromise line

Question 16

What did James Buchanan’s beliefs mean?

Answer 16

North would be full of plantations
Many decided to support Abraham Lincoln

Question 17

What was the Dred Scott decision

Answer 17

Stated that congress had no right to ban slavery as every American had the right to own property

Question 18

How did the Southern states feel after Abraham Lincoln’s victory

Answer 18

Felt they needed to preserve state rights
Said they would break away from the USA and start their own country

Question 19

What was the new confederate congress

Answer 19

The confederate y elected a new government in Montgomery,Alabama
Led by slaveholder Jefferson Davis who argued that any state had the right to remove itself from the Union

Question 20

What happened at Fort Sumpter

Answer 20

Lincoln stated in March that it was illegal for the south to leave the union
All government buildings were still part of the state
Confederates opened fire on union soldiers in Fort Sumter( a gun battery at Charleston Harbour)