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Events that caused the civil war
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Millard Fillmore
Became President after the death of the existing Pres. at that time, President Taylor.
This event aided the statrt of the Civil War because Millard supported the Compromise of 1850. The more people who go against the South's way of life, the angreer the South becomes. -
Compromise of 1850
Series of events. Intended to settle the disputes between the slave and free states.
This helped cause the Civil War because CAL. is now a free state, and it also called for tighter slave laws, to satisfy the South. -
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Wote the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.
This aided because the South thought of the novel or writing as proporganda. False, and something that was untrustwerethy for the North to use against slavery. -
Underground RailRoad
The URR was a secret network of safehouses and volunteers who hid fugitive slaves.
Tjis helped to start the Civil War because the more slaves that are free the more the South will get mad and say that the North might be tp blame. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This split Nebraska ino the territories of Nebraska and Kansas.
This aided in the start of the Civil War because the states were allowed to choose whether they wnted to be free or slave states. -
"Bleeding Kansas"
John Brown kills five proslavery peoplein a raid. This led to a dozens of violent actions throuought the territory. 200 people were killed.
This aided in the start of the Civil War because this proved the Southerners point in slaves being savages and needed to be controlled. -
Dred Scott Decision
The Supreme Court ruled that slaves are to be considered property. Also, terrotories could not exclude slavery.
This aided to the start of the Civil War because the Southerners felt this decision allowed slavery to be extended into all the Western territiories -
Harpers Ferry
John Brown and a few followers attacked a arsenal to try and arm slaves. this aided to the start of the Civil War by showing that anti-slavery citizens would do anything to try and help slaves. -
South Carolina ieaves the Union
The South started to fear their way of life was at risk so they left the Union. This aided in the start of the Civil War because six other states followed. -
Presidential Election of 1866
Abraham Lincoln was elected president and the South was worried their way of life was at risk.
This aided in the start of the Cicil War because the Southern states sterted to leave the Union.
