Causes of the Civil War

What happened to cause California to apply for statehood?

Author of The Liberator

What was the ruling of the Dred Scott case?

Prompted 7 Southern states to secede

The movement to do away with something; particularly slavery

The ability of the residents of a state to decide upon an issue, such as whether they would allow slavery

Established states would enter in pairs of free & slave

Would now allow slavery above the 36/30

Introduced the Fugitive Slave Act

Allowed popular sovereignty

Maine entered as a free state

South Carolina threatened to secede over act

People who sought freedom from slavery in the North could be returned to enslavement in the South due to the

California entered as a free state

All of the following except ___caused tension between North & South during Antebellum era:

informal system of safe houses helping people escape enslavement.

Established no slavery above 36/30

South cultivated tobacco, cotton, rice, cash crops which required many workers, so slavery grew.

Leading Social Reformer of Antebellum Era; Orator who shared his personal experience of the horrors of enslavement

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

The North supported continued tariffs to protect American manufactured goods against cheaper European goods

New England diversified its economy through farming, trade, manufacturing and industry, but did not utilize slavery.