Causes of the Civil War

Voters in a new territory would decide to allow slavery or not

Where was the capital of the Union?

The Compromise of 1850 banned the slave trade in...

The Republican party was made up of mostly what kind of people?

Texas was the _____ state to secede from the union.

What era is known as the time before the Civil War?

What section(s) of the country were for cheap western land?

Why did Sam Houston resign from office?

Lincoln would rather preserve the Union than end slavery.

Southerners were for cheap land in the west so they could grow...

This agreement kept slavery south of 36"30' and kept number of free and slave states equal

Which Compromise was The Fugitive Slave Act a part of?

The West was against high tariffs.

The final shape of Texas was determined through what document?

An agrarian economy consists of...

Which of the state was first to secede from the union?

Which section(s) of the country opposed strong states' rights?

Who proposed the Compromise of 1850?

Which political party was Abraham Lincoln elected as?

What was the south's number one cash crop?

Hard money is backed by gold.

Most Southerners owned slaves.

Slavery was not allowed north of what line of latitude after the Missouri Compromise?

The North was against low land prices.

What was the capital of the Confederacy?

The election of Lincoln caused -

Texas believed in states' rights, meaning they were for a weaker...

The west was for slave labor.

Invented by Eli Whitney; allowed for increased cotton crops, which needed more slaves

States began to secede immediately following