Causes of the Civil War

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

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

Cultural and political differences that divided the country 

• sectionalism
• secede
• slave state
• free state

States that DID NOT allow slavery 

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

States that DID allow slavery and practice it. 

• slave states
• free 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

To leave, or quit, a group or union

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

California was admitted into the Union, Utah and New Mexico were able to choose (free or slave state) and settled border disputes from war with Mexico. 

• Compromise of 1850
• Missouri Compromise 1820
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Decision 

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

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