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Slavery
The North later opposed slavery because they felt that the slaves were being punished to severely, like getting whipped and chained.The South depended on slavery because they needed the free labor in their plantations to do all the work. -
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Causes Of The Civil War
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Missouri Compromise
Henry Clay introduced The Missouri Compromise on January of 1820. Missouri and Maine both wanted to join as free states, therefore disrupting the balance. The Compromise was made because it said that anything north of the Compromise was a free state and anything south was a slave state. This was made because the North and the South wanted the free and slave states to be of an equal amount. -
Compromise of 1850
After the Mexican War the United States got the states California, Utah, and New Mexico. The problem with this was because California was both above and below the Missouri Compromise. Henry Clay made the Compromise of 1850. It's purpose was to say that California would be a slave state, but would not be allowed to trade slaves in Washington D.C. and after this happened the South made the Fugitive Slave Law. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
When they made the Louisiana purchase they split the region into two territories and put them in the union as slave states and free states. They get to pick if they support slavery or oppose slavery. This event added to tensions because people from around the Southern states illegally voted for slavery. This event led up to Bleeding Kansas. -
John Brown Rebellion
John Brown was born and he got a feeling from his father that slavery was wrong and a bad thing, so he grew up and became an abolitionist. He went to Harper's Ferry with his sons, and some followers to free the slaves by attacking the federal arsenal. They get control of it at first, but the marines make them leave. John Brown was found guilty of murder and treason and they hanged him. -
1860 Election
The issue of slavery threatened to tear the nation apart. Abraham Lincoln was elected which split the democrats into the northern democrats and the southern democrats. He said that he would leave slavery alone in the South, but not let it spread into the North. -
secession
What happened? South Carolina stated that the government said that the states are allowed to secede if the government said they could so south Carolina seceded and then Georgia, Texas, and Mississippi soon followed South Carolina’s lead and then Tennessee, North Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Arkansas, and Virginia seceded. And all those states formed the confederate states of America.
