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Causes of the Civil War
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Missouri Comprimise
Maine requested to be a state in 1820. Agreeing to the agreement thought of by Henry Clay, if the southern states agreed to Maine being a free state, Missouri would be allowed as a slave state. Also, all land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase north of 36° 30' N latitude would be free. -
Fugitive slave law
The law stated that the North had to help the South to capture the slaves and return them to their owners. It made the South very pleased, but left the North furious. This didn’t help one bit with the growing tentions, it just made them worse. -
Slavery
There were people who went to Africa, took, and traded for slaves, then went to America to sell the slaves. Then back to Africa to trade the things they got for slaves, then to Africa and America and so on and so forth. It was a called a triangle act. -
Compromise of 1850
California would be let in as a free state, and there would be arrangements of new areas of New Mexico and Utah, that would be what the North received. Also, the sale of slaves stopped in Washington D.C. (That was a plus for the North too) The South would get the Fugitive Slave law. (I will talk more about that later.) -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This act indicated that the inhabitants of Kansas and Nebraska would vote if they wanted slavery or not. It also turned Kansas into a battleground for slavery or no slavery! -
John Brown Rebellion
John Brown and 5 of his sons went to “Bleeding Kansas” and killed five slavery supporters. It was a triumph for the North, but a loss for the South. It infuriated the South very much. -
Election of 1860
Lincoln campaigned for president in 1860, he won the election but made the South furious. Then the South segregated and elected their own president. This caused the secession, and later the war. -
Secession
South Carolina declared the U.S. Constitution gave a state the right to segregate if the Federal Government betrayed its “obligations” to a state. More specificly, South Carolina stated that the Government failed to carry out the Fugitive Slave Law in all states, and the election of Abraham Lincoln indicated the end of slavery, an establishment on which South Carolina ’s economy was reliant on.
