Causes of the Civil War [2020]

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How did the citizens of Texas feel about slavery?

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Texas citizens were divided on the issue of slavery

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When does the Civil War begin?

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1861

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What were "states' rights"?

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the belief that the federal government should not intervene in state decisions

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Part of the Compromise of 1850 included a "Fugitive Slave Law" which affected escaped slaves and freedmen in the North because - both groups could be captured and taken to the South in chains, both groups were required to serve in the U.S. Army for at least 6 years, both groups were banished from the U.S. [many of them choosing to live in Canada], both groups were allowed to own property in the North

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both groups could be captured and taken to the South in chains

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Explanation for the decline in cotton production during the war?

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Texan farmers planted more corn and wheat to feed soldiers during the war

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According to this chart, what was happening to the population of Texas in the years after the Civil War [1861-1865]?

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the population of Texas was INCREASING

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What do the MISSOURI COMPROMISE, COMPROMISE OF 1850, and KANSAS - NEBRASKA ACT have in common?

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the possible expansion of slavery

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What caused much of the slave population to move from the upper south to the lower south in the years before the Civil War?

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the money that could be made growing more cotton

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Which of the following was a cause of the Civil War? SLAVERY, STATES' RIGHTS, SECTIONALISM, ALL OF THESE ANSWERS ARE CORRECT

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ALL OF THESE ANSWERS ARE CORRECT

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What issue is President Lincoln addressing in these two quotes? "The [Southern] states have their status in the Union and they have no other legal status. The Union, and not themselves, procured their independence and their liberty."
"The Union is perpetual...[and] no State...can lawfully get out of the Union."

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the right of states to secede