Civil War Causes

Question 1

believed in states’ rights and thought slavery should be legal if a state’s people wanted it to

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Southerners

Question 2

Who won the tight race of the election of 1860?

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Abraham Lincoln

Question 3

Which state seceded first?

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South Carolina

Question 4

The idea that states have the right to make decisions about issues that concern them

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state's rights

Question 5

What did the south call its new government, led by President Jefferson Davis?

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The Condfederate States of America

Question 6

This law created violence between abolitionists and slave owners, called Bleeding Kansas

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Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 7

What does it mean to secede?

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to break away from

Question 8

A loyalty to a section or part of the country rather than to the whole country

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sectionalism

Question 9

This law allowed California to join as a free state so slaves could not help look for gold.

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Compromise of 1850

Question 10

This law created a line where slavery would be allowed south of it and forbidden north of it.

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Missouri Compromise

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