Causes of the Civil War
The belief that states could ignore or overrule federal laws.
What are states’ rights?
This Supreme Court case ruled that enslaved people were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
The term for when a state leaves the Union.
What is secession?
The 16th president elected in 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
When is my birthday?
1/27
The debate over whether slavery should spread into western territories
What is slavery expansion?
This abolitionist raided Harpers Ferry hoping to spark a slave rebellion.
What is John Brown's Raid?
These were slave states that stayed loyal to the Union.
What are border states?
This abolitionist led a raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859 hoping to spark a slave rebellion.
Who is John Brown?
What is my second job?
Bartending
This 1854 act allowed settlers to vote on slavery in Kansas and Nebraska.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Southern states began leaving the Union after this election in 1860.
What is the Election of 1860?
This border state was especially important because it surrounded Washington, D.C.
What is Maryland?
This Confederate general helped lead Southern forces to victory at the First Battle of Bull Run.
Who is Thomas J. Jackson?
(Stonewall Jackson?)
What is my favorite movie?
Captain America: The Winter Solider
Violent clashes in Kansas between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This attack in April 1861 officially began the Civil War.
What is the Attack on Fort Sumter?
The South believed this principle gave them the right to leave the Union.
What are states’ rights?
The president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
What is my girlfriends name? (No she isn't) AI
Samantha
This growing division between North and South made compromise more difficult.
What is sectionalism?
These events showed that compromise over slavery was failing and sectional tensions were rising.
What was the breakdown of compromise?
(Also: What was increasing sectionalism?)
This new nation was formed by states that seceded from the Union.
What was the Confederate States of America?
This Union general later became president of the United States after the war.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
When did I graduate from college?
2021