Civil War Causes

This act nullified the Missouri Compromise of 1820 using the idea of popular sovereignty.

To secede means to ____________.

What is a tariff?

People voting for themselves on whether or not to make slavery legal in their state is ___________.

What was the decision in the Dred Scott Supreme Court case?

This state was the first to secede from the Union.

The economy of the South was based on_________.

The immediate cause of the Civil War was _____________.

A famous conductor on the Underground Railroad who helped hundreds of people escape slavery was____________.

What compromise divided free from slave states at the southern border of Missouri?

With the Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham Lincoln freed ___________.

The results of the election of 1860 was a determining factor of South Carolina seceding from the Union.

Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe, ignited antislavery feelings of ___________.

One of the advantages the North had over the South was______________.

One strategy of the South was ___________.

The abolitionist who led a raid on Harper's Ferry to get guns to free slaves was___.

Southern states were against tariffs because___________.

One advantage of the South was that_______.

The immediate cause of the Civil War was________.

Loyalty to one's own region of the country instead of the country as a whole.

One of the following was not a cause of the conflict between the North and the South.