Unit 6: Causes of the Civil War

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 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

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

Split the Nebraska Territory into the states of Kansas and Nebraska, where they also got to choose whether to be a free or slave states... causing conflict within the states. 

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Missouri Compromise 1820
• Compromise of 1850
• Fugitive Slave Act

Act made it a federal law that all runaway slaves MUST be returned to their owners in the south. 

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

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 

This law said Americans could ^_NOT help runaway slaves.

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