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Causes of the Civil War
Causes of the Civil War II
North
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West
Politics & Blood
Vocabulary
100

The North and the South could not agree with each other about the spread and practice of this.

What is slavery?

100
This book about the harsh, cruel life of a slave sparked outrage and led many people to support the anti-slavery cause.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100

Industrial

Pro-Tariff

Anti-Slavery

Pro-Federal Government

What is the North

100

This man's election to the presidency prompted SC to secede in 1860.

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

100

To formally withdraw membership

Secede

200
This act required people to return escaped slaves to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
200

This helped slaves escape to the North or Canada. It was run by a secret network of abolitionists.

What is the Underground Railroad?

200

Agrarians

Anti-Tariff

Pro-Slavery

Pro-States Rights


What is the South?

200

This compromise stated that slavery would not be permitted in territory from the Louisiana Purchase above 36 degrees latitude.

What is the Missouri Compromise?

200

A person involved in the movement to end slavery

Abolitionist

300

April 12, 1861

When were the first shots fired starting the Civil War?

300

This act allowed two midwestern territories to vote on the slavery issue. It led to violence in bloodshed, particularly in one state.

What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

300

Putting the needs of your region above the needs of the country as a whole.

What is Sectionalism?

300

Party that Abraham Lincoln belonged to

What is the Republican Party?

300

Name of the newly formed country made up of eleven southern states after the election of 1860.

What is the Confederate States of America?

400

The man who caned a senator in the U.S. capital building over the issue of slavery.

Who is Preston Brooks?

400

First state to secede?

South Carolina

400

This spread West as the United States spread West

What is slavery?

400

Nickname given to a state where violence and bloodshed broke out after it was decided that citizens would vote on the slavery issue.

What is Bleeding Kansas?

400

When the residents of a territory are given the ability to vote on the issue of slavery for themselves.

What is popular sovereignty?

500
This compromise admitted California as a free state, allowed Utah and New Mexico to vote on the slavery issue, banned the sale of slaves in DC, and enacted tougher fugitive slave laws.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
500
In this Supreme Court case, a slave sued for his freedom. He lost the case, with the Supreme Court ruling that slaves are considered personal property.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
500

A southerner who ran in the 1860 Presidential Election and wanted slavery expanded everywhere.

Who is John Breckenridge?

500

Stephen Douglas' view on the issue of slavery.

What is the Freeport Doctrine ?

500

A fee imposed on imports to protect U.S. manufacturing from overseas competition 

What is Tariff?