Causes of the Civil War Review

Dispute over tariffs in which South Carolina threatened to secede (leave) the United States 30 years before the Civil War even started...

• Election of 1860
• Nullification
• State's Rights
• Slavery

This act guaranteed the return of any runaway slave found in the North

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Case

This compromise allowed California to enter the union as a free state but also included the Fugitive Slave Act

• Compromise of 1850
• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Case

Each state should be able to decide their issues for themselves and the Federal Government should not interfere. 

• slavery
• state's rights
• secede
• Gettysburg

What was the effect of the cotton gin on slavery in the South?

• It reduced the need for slaves on plantations.
• It increased the demand for slaves to produce more cotton.
• It helped improve the slaves' work conditions.
• It had no significant effect on slaves or slavery.

An abolitionist is  

• a person who fights for slavery
• a soldier that fights for the Confederate
• A person who fights against slavery
• a soldier that fights for the Union

The breaking of the United States into regions of common economies, populations and values was called...

• compromise
• secession
• states' rights
• sectionalism

The south was for slavery because

• they wanted to be difficult
• they liked slaves
• their economy depended on slavery
• this is wrong. 

SECEDE means to leave the union 

• True 
• False

Slavery grew in the South because of the following geographical factors:  

• rocky soil and warm climate
• cold harsh winter climate  and beaches
• expensive land and rocky soil
• cheap land, warm climate, rich soil