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By provoking fear and anger in the South, and prompting the enactment of harsh legislation that eroded the rights of white Americans, the Underground Railroad was a direct contributing cause of the Civil War.
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The war stemmed largely from the U.S. desire to extend its borders and ultimately helped push the country closer to civil war.
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Decided what to do with the new territory; TX slave state, CA free state, others can decide with popular sovereignty.
A Fugitive Slave Act which allowed officials to arrest any person accused of being a runaway slave, denied fugitives the right to a trial and required all citizens to help capture runaway slaves -
These later laws further pressured citizens to take sides regarding the issue of slavery. Tensions between the North and South quickly increased, leading to the eventual secession of the South and the ensuing Civil War. -
Republican Party during the Civil War introduced the idea in American history that the federal government has an important role to enforce the country’s moral and economic welfare -
Intensified the bitter debate over slavery in the United States. Caused violence among the people, which would later explode into the Civil War because of this increasing conflict turning even more physical -
Kansans engaged in a violent guerrilla war between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces which significantly shaped American politics and contributed to the coming of the Civil War
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Country's polarization over the issue of slavery
Considered symbolic of the "breakdown of reasoned discourse" and the use of violence that eventually led to the Civil War -
The Panic of 1857 encouraged those in the South who believed the North needed the South to keep a stabilized economy, and southern threats of secession were temporarily quelled -
The divisiveness and animosity fueled by the movement, along with other factors, led to the Civil War and ultimately the end of slavery in America -
Divide between North and South over slavery grew and culminated in the secession of southern states from the Union and the creation of the Confederate States of America -
Contained clauses protecting slaveholding and a bill of rights excluding free blacks which added to the frictions leading up to the Civil War
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Douglas repeatedly attacked Lincoln's supposed radical views on race, claiming his opponent would not only grant citizenship rights to freed slaves but allow Black men to marry white women (an idea that horrified many white Americans) and that his views would put the nation on an inevitable path to war -
Raised the stakes for the 1860 presidential election, helped make any further accommodation between North and South nearly impossible -
Served as the immediate motivation for the outbreak of the Civil War, Lincoln refused to accept any resolution that would result in Southern secession from the Union