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Causes of the Civil War
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- Q1Which two regions fought against each other in the Civil War?US and Great BritainNortheast and SouthwestEast and West CoastNorth and South30s
- Q2The South depended on slave labor becausemore people were working in factories.people from Ireland were moving there.the cotton industry was growing.fishing was important to the area.30s
- Q3Northerners and Southerners disagreed about whethercitizens in new territories should pay taxes.they should expand territories to the west or the east.slavery should be allowed in new territories.the president should have the power to make laws.30s
- Q4Many people in the North were starting to work atfactories.plantations.farms.mines.30s
- Q5Why didn't Northerners want Missouri to join the Union?They believed that California should join instead.They thought the Union should have only 22 states.They did not need more cotton for their factories.They did not want another slave state in Congress.30s
- Q6The Missouri Compromiselet Maine join the Union as a free state, but didn't let Missouri join as a slave state.calmed the anger between the North and South, but didn't settle the conflict.brought slavery to the free states, but didn't allow factories in the slave states.allowed the Louisiana purchase, but didn't let settlers move into the region.30s
- Q7A person who wanted to end slavery was called a/anconductor.abolitionist.fugitive.compromise.30s
- Q8California's request to enter the Union as a free state causedAlabama to join the Union as a slave stateCongress to make the Compromise of 1850.more cotton plantations to open in the North.Missouri and Maine to leave the Union.30s
- Q9The Fugitive Slave Law stated thatabolitionists can't support the Underground Railroad.officials in the North would help return runaway slaves.the Compromise of 1850 no longer matters to the states.slaves are considered free if they escape to a free state.30s
- Q10The "Bleeding Kansas" conflict showed thatNebraska and Kansas should not join the Union.the North and South were coming to an agreement about slavery.compromises were not enough to hold the Union together.more cotton plantations were opening in the South.30s
- Q11Southerners did not want Lincoln to be president because hewas against slavery spreading to new territories.commanded his armies to attack Fort Sumter.didn't buy products or wear clothes made of cotton.refused to support the Underground Railroad.30s
- Q12The Southern states formed the Confederacy becauseNortherners didn't support the Underground Railroad.Lincoln thought it would be better to split up the country.the South wanted to protect their right to own slaves.Congress did not pass the Fugitive Slave Law.30s