Events Leading to Civil War

Southerners' belief that states should have higher authority than the federal government was called:

• confederate rights
• states rights
• national rights

Under this compromise, if a slave state was added to the Union, a free state or territory must also be added

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

The Fugitive Slave Act was added to this compromise to please Southern states

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

What was the first state to secede from the Union

• Georgia
• Texas
• South Carolina
• North Carolina

This law allowed "popular sovereignty" in several U.S. territories

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

Abraham Lincolns was elected president in 1860. He was

• Democrat
• Republican
• Independent

What was the key difference between the Northern and Southern economies that helped lead to war?

• The Southern economy depended on slavery and the Northern economy did not

• The North was predominantly Protestant and had organized religion

• North was more populous than the South

• the South was agricultural and the North focused on Industry

This act established Kansas and Nebraska as territories and allowed residents to decide on whether or not to allow slavery in the newly established territories

• Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854

• Wilmot Proviso

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

The Compromise of 1850 included five different laws. Which law was beneficial to the North as part of this compromise?

• South would have to pay the North for any captured slaves

• South promised to reduce the number of slaves

• Slavery was outlawed in the Louisiana territory

• California was admitted as a free state

The Fugitive Slave Act provided for the

• payment to slaveholders for escaped slaves

• safe passage for slaves

• expansion of slavery to free slaves

• recovery of runaway slaves