Causes of the Civil War #1
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- Q1The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 were attempts by the federal government toreduce the conflict over slaverycontrol the migration of settlers to new western territorieslimit immigration from Europesettle border disputes with Mexico30s
- Q2Most Southern political leaders praised the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) because itupheld the principle of popular sovereigntyprotected the property rights of slave owners in the territoriessupported the right of a state to secede from the Uniongranted citizenship to all enslaved persons30s
- Q3In the 1850s, the phrase “Bleeding Kansas” was used to describe clashes betweenChinese and Irish railroad workersNative American Indians and white settlersproslavery and antislavery groupsSpanish landowners and new American settlers30s
- Q4The publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, contributed to the start of the Civil War byconvincing Congress to ban the importation of slavespressuring the president to support emancipationintensifying Northern dislike of slaveryexposing the dangers of cotton manufacturing30s
- Q5The election results shown on this map most clearly reflect the influence ofethnic conflictssectional differencesnationalist motivespolitical stability30s
