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Causes of the Civil War
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Missouri Comprimise
In 1820 the Missori Compromise, made by Henry Clay, was created. Missouri wanted to join as a slave state in the Union, but because of the equal amount of slave and free states, it would dissrupt the balance. A compromise was created that said anything north of the compromise was a free state and anything south was a slave state. This didn't work out that well because 30 yrs. later California came and it was both north and south of the compromise. -
The Nat Turner Rebellion
Nat Turner was a religious slave that claimed he had visions from God. These visions grew more violent to the point of recruting other slaves to go to plantations and killing whites. This happened on August 21, 1831. Eventually, one militia assisted by three other militias killed over one hundred innocent and rebellious slaves -
The Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was another act created by Henry Clay. After the Mexican War, the United States got the states California, New Mexico, and Utah. California was both above and below the Missouri Comprimise so it couldn't be decided if it was a slave or a free so the Union said that California could be a Northern slave state but was not allowed to trade slaves in D.C. After this happened, the South made the Fugitive Slave Law (a law that said that northerners had to help bring back slaves.) -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act occured in 1854 when congress submitted Kansas and Nebraska into the Union. The most important effect was that it gave them the right to vote on slavery in these states. This is also led up to an event called Bleeding Kansas because it ended up in fighting and battles, the first fighting over slavery. -
The John Brown Rebellion
In 1855, John Brown and his five sons attacked whites. In doing so they killed five whites and stood up against a mob. Later, they attacked a Virginia arsenal and won, but then a militia and the U.S. marines attacked Brown, killing two of his sons and forcing him to surrender. -
The Dred Scott Decision
The Dred Scott Descision was a case in the Supreme Court in 1856. Dred Scott was a slave on a plantation in a free state that his master often visited. He thought that he should be free because he was in a free state so he took the case to several courts, then eventually the Supreme Court. They gave various reasons on why he should remain a slave and it made abolitionists think that the South was trying to spread slavery. -
The Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860 and he said that he would leave slavery alone, but not allow it to spread into the North. This tore the democrats apart to make the Northern Democrats, and the Southern Democrats. This also led to the South's secession and that led to the making of the Confederate states. They left without even seeing what President Lincoln would do. -
Secession
The Secession of the South occured on December 24, 1860 when South Carolina issued a Declaration of Immedeat Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union. This added to tensions because the North was mad that South Carolina and other states left the Union and made a new country.
