Causes of the Civil War

What is another term for a tax on imported goods?

• Popular Soverignty

• Treason

• States' Rights

• Tariff

What would you call a person who wanted to abolish slavery?

• Freedom Writer

• Abolitionist

• Fugitive

• Treason

The right of people to make their own political decisions is called...

• Sectionalism

• Popular Soverignty

• Compromise of 1850

• States' Rights

The idea that states should be able to make final decisions for themselves is...

• Abolitionist

• Tariff

• Popular Sovereignty

• States Rights

States located between the Union and the Confederacy.

• Free States
• Slave States
• Border States
• Sectionalism

This law said Americans could ^_NOT help runaway slaves.

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

Which of the following terms refers to the idea that different geographical areas of the U.S. have different beliefs and values, which can cause tension.

• Sectionalism

• Localism

• Partiality

• Provincialism

Which economy relied heavily on Industrialization and paid labor

• North

• South

• West

Which economy relied heavily on agriculture and slavery

• North

• South

• West

Which of the following was part of the Compromise of 1850

• California admitted as free state

• New Mexico and Utah territories would vote on issues of slavery

• US agreed to stay out of foreign affairs

• The passing of the Fugitive Slave Law