Causes of the War
All of the causes of the Civil War can be linked back to this institution.
This is the idea that white Americans had the divine right to spread their territory and influence from coast to coast.
What is...Manifest Destiny?
This is the decision that banned slavery above the 36'30 line.
What is...The Missouri Compromise?
Lincoln believed slavery ________ spread into the territories.
What is...Should NOT?
These states had a specific cultural identity because they were slave states that stayed with the Union.
What are...Border States?
This cause led to the war because the South depended on slave labor
This is a vote in which the people get to decide on an issue.
What is...Popular Sovereignty?
This is a law that required citizens of the North to catch runaway slaves and return them to their owners.
What is...The Fugitive Slave Law?
This is the name of the President of the Confederacy.
Who is...Jefferson Davis?
This cause of the war is defined as the belief that your part of the country is the best and putting the needs of your part over what is best for the entire nation.
What is...Sectionalism?
This term is best defined as pride in one's own nation and support for its interests, even to the detriment of the interests of other nations.
This is the decision by which California was entered as a free state, the slave trade was abolished in DC, and the fugitive slave law was established.
What is...The Compromise of 1850?
Lincoln is the _____ President (number)
What is...16th?
This is the war measure meant to cripple the Confederacy by enticing African Americans to join the Union Army?
What is...The Emancipation Proclamation?
What is...Expansion?
This is the name of the man who created the Wilmot Proviso. (Must have 1st name)
Who is...David Wilmot?
This is known as the first attack of the Civil War.
What is...Attack on Fort Sumter?
This is the percentage of the popular vote that Lincoln won in the 1860 election.
What is...40%
The EP did not work because...
OR...
The South ignored it
This event caused the Civil War because the South did not approve of this person and did not want to be led by them.
What is...the election of 1860 (Lincoln)?
This is the name of the main candidate that ran against Abraham Lincoln in the election of 1860.
Who is...Stephen A. Douglas?
This event led to Bleeding Kansas.
What is...The Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This is the state Lincoln was from.
What is...Illinois/Kentucky?
Slavery did not become a moral issue until this event.
What is...The Emancipation Proclamation?