USI.9b Civil War: Pre-War Compromises

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What happened after several states seceded from the Union that caused the other Southern states to secede and marked the beginning of the Civil War?

Why did the Southern states start to secede and form the Confederate States of America?

Which pre-war compromise or Supreme Court Decision allowed Missouri to join the Union as a slave state and Maine to join as a free state?

Which pre-war compromise or Supreme Court Decision allowed California to join the Union as a free state?

Tensions over the issue of slavery increased as ___.

Which pre-war compromise or Supreme Court Decision canceled out all pre-war compromises by opening up all of the US and its territories to slavery?

Which pre-war compromise or Supreme Court Decision made stricter fugitive slave laws, requiring the North to return runaway slaves to the South?

___ believed that the United States was one nation, a union, that could not be separated or divided.