CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR

Which outcome best completes the diagram?

• American Revolution

• Popular Sovereignty

• Manifest Destiny

• Civil War

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

What was the fundamental question addressed in each of the congressional acts above?

• Should the U.S. expand westward?

• Should states be allowed to nullify federal laws?

• Should slave labor be allowed in new states?

• Should states be able to secede from the Union?

Which economy relied heavily on Industrialization and paid labor

• North

• South

• West

Which economy relied heavily on agriculture and slavery

• North

• South

• West

Kansas-Nebraska Act gave the people of these territories the right to vote on slavery. What piece of legislation did it overturn?

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

• Henry Clay Treaty

• Lincoln Agreement

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

Taxes on imported goods are called

• Income Tax
• Tariffs
• Revenue

The Compromise of 1850 allowed certain territories to use___________________________ to determine whether the territory would be free or slave.  This decision applied to much of the land gained from the the U.S. Mexican War.

• Three Fifths Compromise
• Raiding
• Popular sovereignty 
• Secession

different geographical areas of the U.S. have different beliefs and values, which can cause tension.

• Sectionalism

• Localism

• Partiality

• Provincialism