8.6 Causes of the Civil War Review

Sectionalism

• A law that made it a crime to help blacks running away from slavery; allowed for the arrest of runaways in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to their enslavers.
• Compromise about slavery in California. Decided to admit California as free state, abolish the slavery in Washington DC, and create a new fugitive slave law
• Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole
• Idea that the people of a territory, rather than the United States Congress, should decide whether to permit slavery in the territory before it became a state.

Missouri Compromise

• Compromise about slavery in California. Decided to admit California as free state, abolish the slavery in Washington DC, and create a new fugitive slave law
• Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole
• Compromise over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a state with slavery and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states.
• The action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.

Compromise of 1850

• Compromise about slavery in California. Decided to admit California as free state, abolish the slavery in Washington DC, and create a new fugitive slave law
• Abolitionist and author of the famous antislavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole
• Prominent American abolitionist, was the editor of radical abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator", and one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.

Popular Sovereignty

• Compromise over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a state with slavery and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states.
• Election were the primary issue was slavery in the United States. The result caused 7 southern states to leave the Union before the beginning of the Civil War.
• Prominent American abolitionist, was the editor of radical abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator", and one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.
• Idea that the people of a territory, rather than the United States Congress, should decide whether to permit slavery in the territory before it became a state.

Fugitive Slave Act

• Compromise over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a state with slavery and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states.
• Election were the primary issue was slavery in the United States. The result caused 7 southern states to leave the Union before the beginning of the Civil War.
• A law that made it a crime to help blacks running away from slavery; allowed for the arrest of runaways in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to their enslavers.
• Republican presidential candidate in the 1860 election. Ran on a stance of abolishing slavery.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole
• Republican presidential candidate in the 1860 election. Ran on a stance of abolishing slavery.
• The action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.
• A law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery through popular sovereignty.

John Brown

• A radical abolitionist whose attempt to free enslaved blacks cost a number of lives and helped indirectly to bring on the American Civil War.
• Idea aimed at protecting the rights and powers of the states against those of the federal government. Used to justify why states should be able to have slavery.
• The action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state.
• Idea that the people of a territory, rather than the United States Congress, should decide whether to permit slavery in the territory before it became a state.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Idea aimed at protecting the rights and powers of the states against those of the federal government. Used to justify why states should be able to have slavery.
• Abolitionist and author of the famous antislavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Election were the primary issue was slavery in the United States. The result caused 7 southern states to leave the Union before the beginning of the Civil War.
• Compromise about slavery in California. Decided to admit California as free state, abolish the slavery in Washington DC, and create a new fugitive slave law

Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Idea aimed at protecting the rights and powers of the states against those of the federal government. Used to justify why states should be able to have slavery.
• A novel published in 1852 which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral. Caused many people to join the abolitionist movement.
• Compromise about slavery in California. Decided to admit California as free state, abolish the slavery in Washington DC, and create a new fugitive slave law
• Prominent American abolitionist, was the editor of radical abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator", and one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.

William Lloyd Garrison

• A radical abolitionist whose attempt to free enslaved blacks cost a number of lives and helped indirectly to bring on the American Civil War.
• Idea that the people of a territory, rather than the United States Congress, should decide whether to permit slavery in the territory before it became a state.
• Compromise about slavery in California. Decided to admit California as free state, abolish the slavery in Washington DC, and create a new fugitive slave law
• Prominent American abolitionist, was the editor of radical abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator", and one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.