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Under Ground Rail Road
The Underground Railroad was the struggle to enslavement through escape, to the end of the Civil War. Mentioning the efforts of enslaved African Americans to gain their freedom by escaping slavery. Wherever slavery lived, there were efforts to escape. The Underground Railroad was at the heart of the abolitionist movement. This increased splitting between the North and South, which set the stage for the Civil War. Americans differ between the Union and Confederacy. cite: https://www.nps.gov/ -
Manifest Destiny
Manifest destiny was a cultural belief in the United States that American settlers were fated to expand across North America. This was a part of the Civil War because the quick expansion of the United States boosted the issue of slavery as new states were added to the Union, leading to the burst of the Civil War. cite: https://americanexperience.si.edu/ -
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Missouri Compromise
This law making accepted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state, so as not to cause trouble between the balance of slave and free states in the nation. The Court declared the Missouri Compromise to be unlawful, claiming that Congress did not have the authority to abolish slavery in the territories. In time, the North and South's had highly different views on the moral issue of slavery. Then led to the outburst of the Civil War. cite: https://guides.loc.gov/ -
Popular Sovereignty
Popular sovereignty is the concept that the power of a state and its government are created and assisted by the agreement of its people. Popular sovereignty was one of the causes of the Civil War because it created violent tension between the northern and southern states. This event empowered people from enclose free/slave states to enter Kansas and convince the people living there to vote for their side. cite: https://www.britannica.com/ -
Free Soil Party
The Free Soil Party was a brief union political party in the United States, when it united into the Republican Party. The party was largely focused on the single issue of opposing the growth of slavery into the western territories of the United States. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkX0vxn0jvk
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Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a combination of five different bills passed by the United States Congress that temporarily ease tensions between slave and free states. The compromise only inched the nation further against slavery, making countless of people in the South fear the end of slavery. Many in the North seek the end of slavery, the concern which would push the South to thrive after Abraham Lincoln's election as president. cite: https://www.history.com/ -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act needed slaves to be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state. The act also made the federal government responsible for finding, returning slaves that were trying to escape. This was a cause to the Civil War because it shows how to deal with runaway slaves remained a constant issue for decades and was one of the arguments that led to the Civil War. https://study.com/learn/lesson/fugitive-slave-act-of-1850.html
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Harriet Beecher Stowe & Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The story of the Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel by author Harriet Beecher Stowe. The novel had a significant impact on viewpoints toward African Americans and slavery in the U.S.. This is a part of the Civil War because this story encourages others to speak out about the dangerous relations between northern and southern states and forwarding the nation's march toward Civil War. cite: https://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/ -
Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas Nebraska Act was a defensive act that made the territories of Kansas and Nebraska. It was enrolled by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas, and signed into law by President Franklin Pierce. This act led to the Civil war because the dispute that appeared between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers. The falling out of the act's passage was conducted to the period of violence known as Bleeding Kansas, and helped open the way for the American Civil War. cite: https://www.senate.gov/ -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a sequence of brutal civil conflicts in Kansas Territory. It Appeared from a political and theoretic discussion over the rightness of slavery. The Bleeding Kansas led to the Civil War because it displayed that a battle over slavery was inevitable. Its danger made national headlines. It advised the Americans that the sectional debates were doubtful to be resolved without bloodshed. Hence it acted as an intro to the American Civil War. cite: https://www.history.com/