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Causes of the Civil War

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Movement to free enslaved African-Americans
The South's view of "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
Slave who sued for his freedom.
Favoring the interests of one part of the country over the interests of the whole country.
The geographic and cultural identity of the North.
The number of dollars paid to a Commissioner should he return a slave under the Fugitive Slave Act.
The events unfolding in Kansas as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
The geographic and cultural identity of the South.
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War.
The South favored low, the North favored high.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed this compromise.
Town in Virginia where John Brown was captured after his ill-fated raid.
The principle of Popular Sovereignty allows citizens the right to do this.
This aspect of slavery was banned in Washington D.C. as part of the Compromise of 1850.
Pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups rushed to Kansas to do this.
The act of cancelling or ignoring a Federal law.
Southern Democratic candidate for president in 1860.
Slavery was an _________ issue for the South.
The seceding states were called this.
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In death, John Brown would become this for many abolitionists.
The person who decided whether a captured "runaway slave" would be set free or returned to their "owner".
The number of dollars paid to a Commissioner should he reject a claim under the Fugitive Slave Act.
First state to secede from the Union.
President of the Confederacy
The main driver of the South's economy.
In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled that the Missouri Compromise was:
In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled that the Missouri Compromise violated this amendment.
A contributing cause of the Civil War, but often cited as the main cause of the Civil War.
The main driver of the North's economy.
Militant and violent abolitionist.
The main cause of the Civil War.
One of the penalties of assisting runaway slaves.
This territory was added as a result of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
African-Americans, if brought before a Commissioner, were not allowed to do this.
The number of Southern states Lincoln won in the 1860 election.
Writer of "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
Lincoln's political party.
This territory was added as part of the Compromise of 1850.
The Supreme Court ruled that slaves were this in 1857.
To formally break away from a political union.