Causes of the Civil War

Secession is:

• The act of withdrawing membership from a larger group

• Rights of citizens to political and social equality and freedom

• The action of ending a system or practice

• The different lifestyles, social structures, customs, and political values of the North, and South

Abolition is:

• The act of withdrawing membership from a larger group

• Rights of citizens to political and social equality and freedom

• The action of ending a system or practice

• The different lifestyles, social structures, customs, and political values of the North, and South

Sectionalism is:

• The act of withdrawing membership from a larger group

• Rights of citizens to political and social equality and freedom

• The action of ending a system or practice

• The different lifestyles, social structures, customs, and political values of the North, and South

Check all that were part of the Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Abolition of Slavery

• California admitted as a free state

• Annexation of Texas

• Slave trade banned in Washington DC

The first two political parties were:

• Socialist and Green Party

• Democratic and Republican

• Federalist and Democratic Republican

• Whig and Democratic

True or False: Southern states favored strong state governments over a strong central government.

• True

• False

Most historians agree that this was the main cause of the Civil War:

• States Rights

• Slavery

• Taxes

• Westward Expansion

True or false: The north was more agrarian while the south was more industrial.

• True

• False

Nullification is:

• The action of ending a system or practice

• The removal of Native Americans from the Ohio River Valley

• The central government's ability to remove states from the union

• The idea that states could declare a federal law "null and void" if they felt it violated the Constitution.

WHY WAS SAM HOUSTON SUPPORTIVE OF THE ANNEXATION OF TEXAS TO THE U.S.?

"So far as I am concerned….I am determined upon immediate annexation of Texas to the United States...Mexico might make a cause of war, and inflict violence upon us. It might be time before proper aid from the United States would be available for our defense against this...I have no desire to see war renewed again in Texas, to save Texas from more bloodshed, we must annex ourselves to the United States..."

• He wanted the support of the United States to defend Texas from a potential war with Mexico.

• He knew it would benefit the economy in Texas

• He wanted Texas to declare independence from Mexico

• He wanted to use the size and power of Texas to help abolitionists in the United States