1. 10 20 30 40 50 Causes of the Civil War Jeopardy Political Balance
Tariffs Divide
States
Climographs
Fight Over
Slavery
At the Edge
of War 10 20 30 40 50

2. In the 1800’s the South’s
economy depended on this

3. Depended on the labor of
enslaved people

4. state under the Missouri Compromise
Was admitted as a free
state under the Missouri
Compromise
Category

5. Established a border that divided the nation into areas that allowed
slavery and the others that did not
Category

6. The reason land was important
to the economies of the Southern
states

7. A tax on goods coming into
a country

8. Tariffs on imported goods
led to conflict between

9. The jobs many men, women,
and children in the North had

10. The reason Southerners
worried about the tariffs

11. He sent troops to South Carolina
to uphold the law

12. A climograph measures
these two things

13. This part of a climograph
shows the average monthly
temperature

14. This part of a climograph
shows the average monthly
precipitation

15. The average temperature in
Atlanta in June, July, and
August

16. The three months that see
the least rainfall in Atlanta

17. People who traveled on the
Underground Railroad

18. A novel about a cruel
slaveholder’s treatment
of enslaved people

19. This party formed to oppose
slavery

20. To betray one’s country
(think John Brown’s raid
on Harper’s Ferry)

21. This meant that if enslaved
people were taken to free
states, they were still enslaved

22. Fighting among people who
live in the same country
(the attack on Ft. Sumter was
the beginning of ours)

23. Both Lincoln and Douglas
wanted to be elected…

24. A public discussion, often on
political issues

25. Lincoln’s statement that the
U.S. could not “endure half
slave and half free” meant

26. The way Southern lawmakers
reacted to Lincoln’s election
as President