Causes of the Civil War

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What was the biggest cause of the Civil War?

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A fight over to have or not have slavery

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How did the economic differences partly cause the Civil War?

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Southern farmers did not like taxes that help Northern factory owners.

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When was the Civil War?

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1861-1865

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Who was the President of the Union during the Civil War?

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Abraham Lincoln

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What is the name for when part of a country wants to leave and start a new country?

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Secession

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The idea that part of a country is more important than the country as a whole

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Sectionalism

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Fight in the state of Kansas between people that wanted slavery and people that did not. The US said people there would vote to have or not have slavery. This caused a lot of violence between people wanted slavery or did not want it.

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Bleeding Kansas

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What was the Missouri Compromise?

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A plan to have Missouri become a slave state and Maine join the US as a free state. This made 12 slave states and 12 free states.

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What were the states with and without slavery called?

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Slave states and free states

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A person (mostly from the North), that wanted to end slavery was called...

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An Abolitionist