Causes of the Civil War Review
RULES Each team member must attempt to answer a question. Each question is worth ONE point. Each team will receive four Lifelines for assistance. Phone a friend: ask anyone on your team Ask the Enemy: ask a member of the opposing team 50/50: receive TWO answer choices Teacher Clue: receive a hint from the teacher Choose how you use the lifelines carefully. When all have been used, the opposing team can steal if the team member cannot answer. Any lifelines not used at the end of the game will add two points per lifeline to that team’s score. If a team member answers the question incorrectly, the opposing team may also steal.
List THREE causes of the Civil War
What is popular sovereignty?
What is nullification?
Why did South Carolina want to succeed the Union?
Why did the North want taxes on imports?
What was the name for the religious movement that increased support for abolition?
You Decide??? North or South
North or South??? States should have the right to nullify laws that were unconstitutional.
Political decisions should be made to benefit the entire country North or South??? Political decisions should be made to benefit the entire country
North or South??? Believed the federal government could not make the best decisions for states
North or South??? Wealth was not as important as being from the “right” family with “old” money.
North or South??? Nullification is not necessary since laws are made to benefit the entire country.
It was easy to move up in society as long as you have wealth. North or South??? It was easy to move up in society as long as you have wealth.
Slavery was a necessary evil and at times a charitable cause. North or South??? Slavery was a necessary evil and at times a charitable cause.
Who would agree with this statement: Slavery needs to end immediately!
What did William Lloyd Garrison do?
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Which author believed that slavery was an act of charity?
Who was a leader in the abolitionist movement and a former slave?
What led California to apply for statehood?
What compromise allowed one free and one slave state to enter the Union?
The Fugitive Slave Act was a result of which compromise?
Explain the Dred Scott case and it’s outcome.
What ended slavery above the 36/30?
What gave the possibility of slavery above the 36/30?
Define sectionalism.
How did sectionalism affect the Election of 1860?
What was Bleeding Kansas?
What did the Southern States call themselves after seceding the Union?
How did the Georgia Platform decision contribute to holding off the Civil War for 11 years?
Who was Jefferson Davis?
What did Stephen Douglas support in his campaign for presidency?
What is interesting about Alexander Stephens becoming the CSA Vice President?