Causes of the Civil War

What was the main issue dividing the North and the South in the 1850s?

• industry

• agriculture

• slavery

• westward expansion

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

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

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

Citizens could be jailed or fined for helping runaway slaves because of the

• Fugitive Slave Act
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Democrat Party
• Election of 1852

What was the key issue that was debated each time a new state was admitted to the Union before the Civil War?

• the expansion of slavery
• the building of railroads 
• the provision of women's suffrage
• support for the homesteading 

What was the Underground Railroad?

• A train that took people to freedom.

• A tunnel where people could buy slaves.

• A group of people who helped slaves escape to freedom.

• A home where Harriet Tubman grew up.

The North was industrial or manufacturing, and the South was

• Agricultural
• Architectural
• Astrological