Causes of the Civil War

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

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

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

• freedom seeker previously known as fugitive

• slave state

• free state

• state's rights

Cultural and political differences that divided the country 

• sectionalism
• secede
• slave state
• free state

The belief that 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

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

Which law allowed slave holders to gain access to the north to retrieve their runaway slaves

• Fugitive Immigrant Law

• Runaway Slave Clause

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Property Abandonment Clause