SS8H6 Causes, Events and People of the Civil War

Georgia Congressman who supported the Georgia Platform in 1850 and fought against secession in 1861 but eventually became the Vice President of the Confederate States of America.

• Abraham Lincoln
• Ulysses S. Grant
• Robert E. Lee
• Alexander Stephens

The belief that an individual state may restrict federal authority is called ______.  The states' interests take precedence over those of the national government.

• Sectionalism
• State's Rights
• Secession
• Nullify

Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty (vote). Reversed the Missouri Compromise and led to bloodshed in Kansas over slavery.

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

What is a tariff?

• Tax on imported goods to protect American business
• Loyalty to the state instead of the country
• To leave or withdraw
• To cancel

Sectionalism is

• The belief that an individual state may restrict federal authority
• Loyalty to a state or section rather than to the whole country
• Formal withdrawal of states from a country; withdrawal of the Southern states from the United States to form the Confederate States of America
• Notion that the people of a territory should determine if they want to be a slave state or a free state

Formal withdrawal of states from a country; withdrawal of the Southern states from the United States to form the Confederate States of America

• Sectionalism
• Secession
• Separation
• Slavery

To leave or withdraw

• Nullify
• Secede
• Segregate
• Slavery

A notion that the people of a territory should determine (vote) if they want to be a slave state or a free state

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

A human being owning another human being for the purpose of labor. The cause of economic, social, and political differences that led to major division between the northern and southern states. A major cause of the Civil War.

• Nullify
• Popular Sovereignty
• Slavery
• State's Rights

To cancel

• Nullify
• Nullification
• Emancipate
• Abolitionist