Events Leading to Civil War

The economy of the South depended largely on

• slave labor
• new inventions
• manufactoring

What did Southerners want to get ride of in the "nullification controversy"

• tariff on Northern goods
• tariff on European goods

Southerners' belief that states should have higher authority than the federal government was called:

• confederate rights
• states rights
• national rights

Under this compromise, if a slave state was added to the Union, a free state or territory must also be added

• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

The Fugitive Slave Act was added to this compromise to please Southern states

• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

What was the first state to secede from the Union

• Georgia
• Texas
• South Carolina
• North Carolina

This law allowed "popular sovereignty" in several U.S. territories

• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Abraham Lincolns was elected president in 1860. He was

• Democrat
• Republican
• Independent

Georgia statesman Alexander Stephens _____ secession

• opposed
• favored
• called for

This stated that Georgia was willing to remain in the Union after the compromise of 1850 as long as the north complied with the Fugitive Slave Act

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Georgia Compromise
• Georgia Platform