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

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

To leave, or quit, a group or union

• 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 part of the Compromise of 1850 upset the North most?

• Ending the slave trade in Washington DC.

• Allowing California to enter the US as a free state.

• The stricter Fugitive Slave Act.

• Allowing the territories of Utah and New Mexico to vote on slavery.

Which law allowed popular sovereignty in several U.S. territories?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Georgia Platform

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860. He was a

• Republican

• Democrat

• Confederate

• Independent