Causes of the 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

Who threatened to leave the Union after President Lincoln was elected?

• Southern States

• Northern States

• Hawaii

• Great Britain

Citizens could be jailed or fined for helping runaway slaves because of the

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Democrat Party
• Election of 1852

The result of the Dred Scott decision was that (select all correct answers)

• slaves are property, not citizens

• slaves are free if living in a free state

• slavery can be outlawed in the territories

• slavery can spread anywhere (North or South)

Which act of Congress temporarily ended the slavery debate.

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Popular Sovereignty

The Compromise of 1850 allowed certain territories to use___________________________ to determine whether the territory would be free or slave.  This decision applied to much of the land gained from the the U.S. Mexican War.

• Three Fifths Compromise
• Raiding
• Popular sovereignty 
• Secession

What was the Compromise of 1850? Select all that apply.

• California would enter the Union as a free state.

• Texas would be allowed to enter the Union as a slave state.

• The Fugitive Slave Law was passed

• The slave trade would end in the nation’s capital.

Popular Sovereignty was the idea that

• slavery would be banned in all future states.

• the government would decide if slavery would be legal or illegal.

• the people would vote to decide if their state would have slavery.

• slavery would be allowed in every future state.

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