Causes of the Civil War

The South had a plantation economy with ________ being the main export.

• tobacco

• cotton

• indigo

• coffee

________ made up the labor system in the South.

• Immigrants

• Slaves

• Abolitionists

_______ believed slavery was unjust and should be abolished immediately.

• Southerners

• Jefferson Davis

• Abolitionists

Southerners viewed slaves as (a)   .

Northerners wanted to ________ of slavery.

• extend

• end the extension

Southerners wanted to ________ slavery to all new states.

• extend

• end the expansion of

The South believed ________ should have more control over their laws than the federal government.

• the federal government

• individual states

The North believed the ____________ should have more power than the individual states.

• the federal government

• individual states

The Kansas-Nebraska Act was a law that allowed people to _______ on slavery in these territories.

• vote (popular sovereignty)

• be told what to do about slavery

The belief that people living in a region should decide key issues is...?

• suffrage

• secession

• popular sovereignty

• sectionalism