Causes of the Civil War

People who believed that slavery was wrong and tried to stop it

• abolitionists 
• habeas corpus
• state's rights
• secede

right to stand before a judge and ask why you are in prison (charged with a crime)

• habeas corpus
• fugitive 
• slave state
• free state

Someone running away from their owner (slave) or from the law

• fugitive 
• slave state
• free state
• state's rights

Cultural and political differences that divided the country 

• sectionalism
• secede
• slave state
• free state

States that DID NOT allow slavery 

• free states
• slave states
• sectionalism
• state's rights

States that DID allow slavery and practice it. 

• slave states
• free states
• sectionalism
• state's rights

States have individual rights outside of the ones in the federal government

• state's rights
• sectionalism
• free state
• slave state

To leave, or quit, a group or union

• secede
• state's rights
• sectionalism
• habeas corpus

Case brought before the Supreme Court involving a slave wanted his freedom: Court decided African Americans CAN'T be citizens and can't sue in federal court.

• Dred Scott Decision
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Fugitive Slave Act

Split the Nebraska Territory into the states of Kansas and Nebraska, where they also got to choose whether to be a free or slave states... causing conflict within the states. 

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Missouri Compromise 1820
• Compromise of 1850
• Fugitive Slave Act