Chapter 17 Causes of Civil War

States in the South believed

• They should have more representatives in Congress
• They were better
• They should have the right to decide their own laws
• They were French

Sectionalism?

• rivalry based on the special interests of different areas
• to withdraw or break away from a a nation
• a religious meeting
• an official expression of opinion by a group

What Increased tensions between the North and the South?

• The capital of Virginia becoming Richmond.
• The rise of sectionalism, the growing disagreement over states' rights, and the issue of slavery.
• The Climate and geography of the North and South.
• The Arguments over the growth of the military.

What did these developments have in common?

• They wanted to end the abolitionists movement
• They sought changes to end slavery
• They thought that Texas should secede
• They wanted Abe Lincoln to resign

Why did the South oppose adding new free states like California to the Union? 

• they believed this could result in the abolition of slavery
• they believed this could result in the expansion of slavery
• they believed this could result in the break-up of the Union
• they believed this would cause an imbalance in power between slave and free states in Congress

How did the Fugitive Slave Law further divide the North and the South?

• South wanted to enforce it, North didn't

• North wanted to enforce it, South didn't

• The regions couldn't agree on how to revise the law

• The North thought the Underground Railroad was too expensive to maintain

Which was an effect of the Fugitive Slave Act?

• Northerners agreed with the law.
• Many Southerners became abolitionists.
• Northerners thought it was unjust and used Underground Railroad to defy it.
• Southern plantation owners were no longer allowed to bring back runaway slaves.

Uncle Tom's Cabin caused  

• the north to legalize slavery
• intensified northern anti-slavery feelings
• the south to realize the wrongs of slavery
• none of the above

The Dred Scott decision 

• made protective tariffs illegal
• made it legal for states to secede from the Union
• protected slave-owners rights
• declared Kansas to be a slave state

Which attempted to maintain balance between northern free states and southern slave states

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Compromise of 1808
• Missouri Compromise
• Compromise of 1850