SS8H5a - 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

an enslaved person who sued for his freedom after having lived in a free state  

• Roger B. Taney
• Dred Scott
• Stephen Douglass
  John Brown
• Stephen Douglas

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

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

A book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that described the cruelty of slavery.

• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Gettysburg

War between people of the same country

• secede
• state's rights
• civil war
• slavery

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

• slavery
• state's rights
• secede
• Gettysburg

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People who believed that slavery was wrong and tried to stop it

• abolitionists 
• habeas corpus
• state's rights
• secede

States that DID NOT allow slavery 

• free states
• slave states
• sectionalism
• state's rights

States have individual rights outside of the ones in the federal government

• state's rights
• sectionalism
• free state
• slave state

Case brought before the Supreme Court involving a slave wanted his freedom: Court decided African Americans CAN'T be citizens and can't sue in federal court.

• Dred Scott Decision
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Fugitive Slave Act