Causes of the Civil War Quiz Review

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Across
  1. 4. nickname for the United States of America
  2. 6. to ignore a law or to make it void
  3. 7. the South voted to _______ from the Unionm after the election of Abraham Lincoln.
  4. 11. his election directly led to the South seceeding from the Union
  5. 17. this law required Northerners to arrest and returnvany person they knew or suspected was a runaway slave.
  6. 19. nation's #1 export during the 1800s
  7. 21. Georgia accepted the Compromise of 1850 as long as the North promised to stop threatening to end slavery.
  8. 22. Four candidtaes ran for president - Abraham Lincoln wins, which leads to the South seceeding.
  9. 24. when persons in a country or state split off and declare their independence from the ruling government
Down
  1. 1. the demand for slave labor dramatically increased due to this invention.
  2. 2. the Fugitive Slave Act was passed to stop the ________ __________from being so successful
  3. 3. this event happened when states in the South refused to pay tariffs, nearly leading to a civil war in the 1830s
  4. 5. Lincoln won the Election of 1860, but he did not win the majority (over 50%) of this vote
  5. 8. this state was admitted to the Union as a Free State according to the Compromise of 1850.
  6. 9. One reason farmers in the North were against slavery is because they couldn't compete with ____________
  7. 10. this was also seen as a major cause of the Civil War - the South believed that states should have power to make own laws & that slavery is up to residents of state.
  8. 12. the Georgia Platform was important because it helped _________ the secession of Southern states and the Civil War.
  9. 13. a legal theory that a state has the right to ignore any federal laws which they deem unconstitutional
  10. 14. this agreement led to the North adding California as a Free State and the South getting the FugitiveSlave Act in return.
  11. 15. the most important cause of the Civil War - the issue that divides the nation from its very beginning
  12. 16. when two groups come together to negotiate an agreement
  13. 18. he sued for his freedom and lost. The decsion by the Supreme Court stated that African Americans were nothing more than property, were not citizens, and therefore couldn't sue in court.
  14. 20. a tax on imports/exports that the South refused to pay because they felt it discriminated against them
  15. 23. the election in this year was the final event that directly led to the Civil War.