Causes
What was the main cause of the Civil War?
Slavery
The southern states felt the federal government was taking away _______.
Their rights
What was the first state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
People in the north worked and lived in ___________.
big cities
What was it called when states believed they had more rights than the federal government?
States Rights
What did the South rely on slaves for?
To work their fields.
Abraham Lincoln was a member of what party?
The new Republican Party
What happened in the south when Lincoln was elected?
They felt they had every right to leave the Union.
People in the south maintained a rural ____________.
way of life
What direction was the United States expanding in?
Westward
What did the North think about slavery?
It was wrong and evil.
What happened to the north as industrialization took place?
They moved away from being farmers
The new country of the southern states was called ___________.
The Confederate States of America
How long had States' Rights been argued about?
Since the Constitution was written.
What was the first fight over the slavery issue called?
Bleeding Kansas
What were southern farmers afraid of?
Loss of their way of life.
How many southern states did not carry Abraham Lincoln's name on the ballot?
Ten
How did Abraham Lincoln feel about the southern states leaving the Union?
They didn't have the right to secede.
New states to the Union became a _____________ between the two sides of power.
battleground
What was the final straw for the southern states to secede?
Election of Abe Lincoln
How many southern states withdrew (seceded) from the Union?
Eleven
What did Abraham Lincoln do when the southern states declared they were leaving the Union?
Sent in troops to force them to rejoin.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed Kansas residents to ____________________.
choose to be a free or slave state