Economic disagreements

Political corruption

The issue of slavery

Expansion into the West

to join together

to break away from a country

to create a new law

to win a war

The movement to end slavery

The right to own land

Expanding to new territories

A form of government

The law that only states could elect presidents

The idea that all states should be equal in population

The right of states to trade freely.

The belief that states could govern themselves without federal interference.

The group of Southern states that seceded

The name for both armies in the war.

The Northern states that remained loyal to the U. S. government

A peace agreement between the North and South

The Southern states that seceded from the U.S.

A group of people who protested against the war

The states that remained neutral in the Civil War

A peace treaty that ended the war