The Causes of the Civil War

A devotion to the interests of one geographic region over the interest of the country as a whole

• SECTIONALISM

• COMPROMISE OF 1850

• FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT

• DRED SCOTT DECISION

Henry Clay's proposed agreement that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state and divided the rest of the Mexican Cession into two territories where slavery would be decided by popular sovereignty.

• SECTIONALISM

• COMPROMISE OF 1850

• FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT

• DRED SCOTT DECISION

A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders.

• SECTIONALISM

• COMPROMISE OF 1850

• FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT

• DRED SCOTT DECISION

A slave whose court case led to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declared African Americans were not U.S. citizens, that the Missouri Compromise's restriction on slavery was unconstitutional, and that Congress did not have the right to ban slavery in any federal territory.

• SECTIONALISM

• COMPROMISE OF 1850

• FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT

• DRED SCOTT DECISION

The idea that political authority belongs to the people.

• POPULAR SOVREIGNTY

• REPUBLICAN PARTY

• FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT

• DRED SCOTT DECISION

A political party formed in the 1850s to stop the spread of slavery in the West.

• POPULAR SOVREIGNTY

• REPUBLICAN PARTY

• FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT

• DRED SCOTT DECISION

The nation formed by the southern states when they seceded from the Union; also known as the Confederacy.

• POPULAR SOVREIGNTY

• REPUBLICAN PARTY

• CONFEDERACY

• KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT

A law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery.

• POPULAR SOVREIGNTY

• REPUBLICAN PARTY

• CONFEDERACY

• KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT

The act of formally withdrawing from the Union.

• SECESSION

• CRITTENDEN PLAN

• COMPROMISE OF 1850

• POPULAR SOVREIGNTY

A plan in 1860 that would have made slavery legal forever in American territory located south of latitude 36'30, which is at Missouri's southern border.

• SECESSION

• CRITTENDEN PLAN

• COMPROMISE OF 1850

• POPULAR SOVREIGNTY