Complete the following paragraph by selecting the correct answer from each drop-down menu.

The South tried to justify 1.(________)
abolition
secession
popular sovereignty

by arguing that keeping slavery was a matter of states' rights, but the South also favored the
2.(_________)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Fugitive Slave Act
Compromise of 1850

which took away northern States' rights to protect enslaved people who had escaped to the North.