Explain the Events that Caused the Civil War
Explain the Causes of the Civil War
Why did these events cause the Civil War?
Political and Social Effects
Economic Effects
100
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote book that exposed the truth about Slavery
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
100
What happened to Charles Sumner?
The senator was beaten because he gave an abolitionist speech over two days and he made a lot of people mad by name dropping.
100

Why did the south seceding cause the Civil War? 

What is the separation weakened the nation and was the final straw that caused the Civil War

100

What event occured April 14, 1865?

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. 

100

Which part of the U.S. had the most destruction?

What is the South?

200
This president was elected in 1860 and then the south seceded
What is Abraham Lincoln
200
What is this event? A famous abolitionist named John Brown led a raid that was unsuccessful and resulted in him being hanged. He was trying to get weapons, arm slaves, and start a Civil War.
What is Harpers Ferry
200

Whose election caused the South to secede

The election of Lincoln

200

What document during the war freed slaves in the southern states?

Emancipation Proclimation

200

Why did the Southern banks fail?

Because the loans they provided could not be repaid

300
This law was very controversial because it allowed people to take slaves that escaped to the north back to the south to their owners. (Double Jeopardy)
What is Fugitive Slave Act
300
Trash Ball Time - Double points
Trash ball
300

Trash Ball Time

What is Trash Ball

300

Amendment that abolished slavery

What is the 13th Amendment?

300

What happened to property values?

They dropped

400
What was the most controversial law of the Compromise of 1850
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
400
What did 11 states in the south do before the Civil War occurred?
They Seceded
400
How did the Dred Scott case cause the Civil War?
The Supreme Court's ruling (when Dred Scott was ruled to not be a citizen) divided the nation and increased abolitionism in the north
400

Number of people killed in the Civil War

600,000 or up to 750,000

400

Why did the price of cotton drop?

European countries began to produce their own cotton. 

500
What law did the Kansas Nebraska Act break when it allowed these territories to vote on slavery?
What is the Compromise of 1820
500
What were people the most upset about in the north when the ruling on the Dred Scott case?
What is the Supreme Court ruled that he was not a citizen
500
Why did John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry help cause the Civil War?
This raid made the south think that there would continue to be raids and the south started to prepare for war.
500

Trash Ball Time

What is Trash ball

500

Who went to work after many of the men were killed or injured in the war?

Women

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