Slavery
What was the South trying to keep by joining the war?
The right to sell, own, buy, and use slaves.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
An agreement that decreased tension between Northern and Southern states.
What was the Defense of Slavery>
A right to hold, trade, and expand slavery.
Why did the South want to keep the slaves?
They made a lot of money from their labor.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
An act that made Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state in 1820.
What is the Secession Right?
Southern states claimed the Constitution gave them the right to secede when they felt the government violated their rights.
They thought it was cruel and inhumane.
What did the passing of the Missouri Compromise intend to do?
Maintain a balance of power in Congress.
What was the Opposition to Federal Overreach?
People who lived in the South argued that laws designed to stop or slow down slavery were unfair and harmed the economy.
What was the backbone of the Southern economy, produced by slave labor?
Cotton
What was Bleeding Kansas?
Brutal attacks between people who wanted slavery and did not want slavery.
What was the Constitutional Interpretation?
States argued that rights not explicitly given to the federal government belonged to the states.
Why did non-slaveholding people who lived in the South fight?
To defend the racial hierarchy that made them better than the slaves and protect their way of life.
What was happening during the Bleeding Kansas?
Corrupt election fraud, mass murder, and a precursor to the American Civil War.
How many states seceded from the Union, creating the Confederate States of America?
11.