Reasons for the Civil War

Question 1

The Act of separating from a nation or state and becoming independat.

Answer 1

Secession

Question 2

was a territorial organic act that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and allowed settlers there to choose whether they wanted slavery or not in these territories

Answer 2

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 3

Election where Aberham Lincoln defeated 3 oppnents to win presidency; Upon his election southern states seceded from the union

Answer 3

Election of 1860

Question 4

Supreme court ruling that declared enslaved people were not citizens of the United States Of America.

Answer 4

Dredd scott Case

Question 5

States where slavery was NOT legal

Answer 5

Free states

Question 6

States where slavery WAS legal

Answer 6

Slave State

Question 7

Compromise between the North and South that allowed California to enter the union in exchange for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 7

Compromise of 1850

Question 8

Act that required runaway slaves to be returned to their masters

Answer 8

Fugitive Slave Act

Question 9

Position supported by several prominet Georgia politicians who supported the Compromise of 1850

Answer 9

Georgia Platform

Question 10

The belief that a state’s sovereignty is more important than that of the National Goverment

Answer 10

States’ Rights

Question 11

The Act of making legally Null and Void

Answer 11

Nullification

Question 12

Compromise that brought Missouri into the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state; In addition congress banned slavery North of the 36/20 line of the latitiude

Answer 12

Missouri Compromise