Causes and Effects of the Civil War is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on the causes and effects of the Civil War, aligned to C3 Framework indicator D2.His.14.3-5. It prints 3 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

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Causes and Effects of the Civil War

D2.His.14.3-5

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Sort each one: was it a cause of the Civil War or an effect of it?

1.Sort each one: Cause or Effect?

Sort: The Dred Scott decision of 1857 said Congress could not ban slavery in the territories, More than 600,000 soldiers died, Much of the South's farmland, railroads and cities lay in ruins, Southern states seceded and formed the Confederacy to protect slavery

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2.Sort each one: Cause or Effect?

Sort: Violent fighting in Kansas over whether it would allow slavery, The 14th Amendment made people who had been enslaved into citizens, Abraham Lincoln, who opposed the spread of slavery, was elected president in 1860, Reconstruction began, to rebuild the South and protect the rights of freed people

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3.Sort each one: Cause or Effect?

Sort: The 13th Amendment ended slavery in the United States, Abolitionists in the North demanding an end to slavery, The national government became stronger than it had been before the war, Arguments over whether slavery could spread into the western territories

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Answer key — Causes and Effects of the Civil War

Set 11. Prints on its own sheet.

1.1. More than 600,000 soldiers died — Effect 2. Much of the South's farmland, railroads and cities lay in ruins — Effect 3. Southern states seceded and formed the Confederacy to protect slavery — Cause 4. The Dred Scott decision of 1857 said Congress could not ban slavery in the territories — Cause
2.1. Abraham Lincoln, who opposed the spread of slavery, was elected president in 1860 — Cause 2. Reconstruction began, to rebuild the South and protect the rights of freed people — Effect 3. The 14th Amendment made people who had been enslaved into citizens — Effect 4. Violent fighting in Kansas over whether it would allow slavery — Cause
3.1. Abolitionists in the North demanding an end to slavery — Cause 2. Arguments over whether slavery could spread into the western territories — Cause 3. The 13th Amendment ended slavery in the United States — Effect 4. The national government became stronger than it had been before the war — Effect

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.His.14.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.