Chapter 14 Causes of the Civil War

Someone running away from their owner (slave) or from the law (a)  

• fugitive 
• slave state
• free state
• state's rights

States that DID NOT allow slavery  (a)  

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

States that DID allow slavery and practice it.  (a)  

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

To leave, or quit, a group or union (a)  

• 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 

Which economy relied heavily on Industrialization and paid labor

• North

• South

• West

Which economy relied heavily on agriculture and slavery

• North

• South

• West