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Causes of the Civil War
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
Turner led a rebellion against slave owners and killed 70 whites. The Virginia militia responded and captured Turner and his colleagues.This added tensions between the north and the south.The south started killing their slaves because the slave owners were afraid that some of them might try to do what Turner did. -
The Fugitive Slave Act
The congress passed a law called the Fugitive slave law saying if someone in the North found a runaway slave that they would have to turn the slave in. This added tension between the north and the south because southerners accused the south of wanting to end slavery and Northerners accused the south of wanting to spread slavery. -
Slavery
The whites used the blacks to work on the plantations and treated them as if the blacks were property. The whites fed the slaves out of big wooden crates. The slaves would not get paid and would get whipped or sometimes even killed if they did something wrong. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a freed slave who felt that he should have rights just like a white man. He attempted to sue the state because he felt that he was being deprived of his rights. His case went all the way to the Supreme Court, where they ruled against Scot and said that slaves, freed or not, were not citizens and therefore did not have rights. -
John Brown Rebellion
John Brown and his sons lauched an attack against the federal arsenals at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown and his group easily took over the town and the arsenals. The rest of John's plan failed to launch and Virginia Miltia and the U.S. Marines shot two of his sons; John's own injury served as an unconditonal surrender. -
Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln got elected as President because the southern votes got split up because there was more than one person that was running that believed in slavery. This added tensions between the north and the south because the south got mad that Abraham Lincoln got more votes and didn’t believe in slavery. -
Secession
The south split up from the north forming the confederacy. South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana became part of the confederacy. On February 4, 1861, the representatives from each state met in Montgomery, Alabama and formed the confederacy.
