Memory Game Causes for the Civil WarOnline version Identify the causes that led to the American Civil War. by Andrew Balzer Novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the horrors of slavery. Let the people of the territories themselves decide whether slavery would be permitted. Kansas-Nebraska Act Popular Sovereignty Sectionalism It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. loyalty to one's own region or section of the country, rather than to the country as a whole Uncle Tom's Cabin Fugitive Slave Law California entered as a free state It required that all escaped slaves, upon capture, be returned to their masters and that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate. Compromise of 1850
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