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Causes of the civil War
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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri compromise was a compromise created by Henry Clay. The problem was that Missouri wanted to join the battle of states but if it went on either side it would unbalance everything so Henry Clay proposed the Missouri Compromise. It was basically a line dividing the north and south meaning that Missouri was a slave state but Maine then became a free state. What else did the line do? -
Nat Turners Rebellion
Nat Turner had visions that he thought were messages from God and later on these visions became more and more violent. Nat turner thought this meant he was the one to try and end slavery so he got a mob of black slaves and white abolitionist to destroy the plantations they went from plantation to plantation killing innocent whites even the children. The militia finally stopped his mob but didn't catch him later they caught him hiding in the swamp. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act was a compromise that was divised by Henry Clay. The Fugitive Slave Act was an act to balance out the fairness in the Union and Confederacy. The Union wanted California but the south said it was halfway under the dividing line, so Henry Clay made a compromise that if the Union got Califonia then a new law would be made. The new law said even if your in the North and you were a slave you weren't free yet and....? -
Ostend Manifesto
Three advocates of slavery by the names of Peirre Soule, James Buchanan, and James Mason were very rich and wealthy they had the idea of buying Cuba and turn it into a slave state. They couldn't tell the north or else they might have the same idea or they might be so outraged at them for trying to add another slave state. Then what happened? -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was about the border states and how they were bound to get in this fight so the people proposed the Kansas Nebraska act meaning the people of Kansas and Nebraska were to vote if they wanted to be a slave state or a free state. This caused commotion from one end of the country to the other everyone was rushing to Kansas or Nebraska trying to vote for the other states afterward they both became slave states but the north didn't agree and wouldn't accept the results. -
John Browns Rebellion
John Brown was a major abolitionist and one night he started to see visions that he interpreted to be messages from god. Later on these visions became more violent and he thought this meant he was to destroy slavery, so he got a mob of slaves and ransacked a southern arsenal. After they had won the arsenal over, the militia came and took it over after the militia won he was hung. -
Election of 1860
The Election of 1860 was the election of Abraham Lincoln. The election was that the south also was able to vote on Abraham Lincoln his political motto was that he wouldn't let slavery spread but he would keep it until resolved. He won without one single southern vote; this outraged the south enough to elect their own president and they did, Jefferson Davis. After the election the south attacked Fort Sumter and thus the Civil War began that fateful day.
