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CW Causes Review
Closing for Civil War Causes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| His court case divided the nation. It was ruled that he could not sue in court because he was not a citizen. It pleased slave-owners but outraged abolitionists | Dred Scott |
| His election was the final straw that csused southern states to be begin seceeding from the Union. | Abraham Lincoln |
| He encouraged Georgia to stay in the Union but when it voted to seceed, he became vice-president of the Confederacy | Alexander Stephens |
| To maintain balance of power in Congress, Missouri is admitted as a slave state and Maine is admitted as a free state. A line is drawn to determine slavery issue in other Louisiana Purchase territories. | Missouri Compromise |
| Determines slavery issue in territories won in Mexican War. California is a free state, Texas gives up some territory, Utah & New Mexico territories determine slavery by popular soveriegnty, slave trade is ended in DC, and Fugitive Slave Act enacted | Compromise of 1850 |
| Repeals Missouri Compromise by allowing popular soveriegnty to determine slavery issue in Kansas & Nebraska | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| Tax on imported goods that caused conflict between the North and South | Tariffs of 1828 and 1833 |