Memory Causes for the Civil WarVersión en línea Identify the causes that led to the American Civil War. por Andrew Balzer Popular Sovereignty 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 Compromise of 1850 Uncle Tom's Cabin Fugitive Slave Law Sectionalism California entered as a free state Kansas-Nebraska Act Let the people of the territories themselves decide whether slavery would be permitted. Novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the horrors of slavery. It required that all escaped slaves, upon capture, be returned to their masters and that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate.