Causes of the Civil War: Road to Disunion

Why were presidents reluctant to annex Texas?

This amendment states powers not given to the national government are reserved for the states?

This party was formed in 1848 to stop the spread of slavery in the new territories?

How could the pre-war Northern economy be categorized?

This man led a raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia in an attempt to lead a slave rebellion?

This former slave, author, and elegant orator helped spread abolitionism in America.

Abraham Lincoln was a member of this new party created to stop the spread of slavery?

This proposed law banning slavery in the Mexican Cession was not passed by Congress?

This part of the Compromise of 1850 greatly angered Northerners?

Which section of the U.S. favored strong state rights?

The agrarian-based Southern economy relied on this for increased profits?

Abraham Lincoln's debates with this man were covered nationally and their stands on slavery?

This Vice President & Senator led the Nullification Crisis in response to the Tariff of 1828?

The Virginia & Kentucky Resolution introduced nullification. What is nullification?

Which was NOT part of the Compromise of 1850?

This was the concept that the different regions developed different economic & political goals?

This final compromise by Stephen Douglas introduced "popular sovereignty" into new territories

This Supreme Court case infuriated many Northerners denying due process to African Americans?

What was NOT a cause of the Civil War?

This abolitionist started a newspaper, The Liberator, which greatly angered Southerners?

This political compromise over the spread of slavery drew a line between free & slave states?

This concept of extending across North America escalated the debate over spreading slavery?

Violence erupted in this state over popular sovereignty earning it the nickname Bleeding _____?

This book by Harriet Beecher Stowe exposed many Americans to the horrors of slavery?

After Lincoln was elected this state became the first to secede from the Union?

This is the concept in which the national and state governments share power?

When rebels fired on this federal fort, the Civil War was officially underway?