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Causes of the Civil War

By Curlyfry65
  • Invention of Cotton Gin

    Invention of Cotton Gin

    The invention of the cotton gin increased the need for slavery. If the cotton gin wasn't invented slavery might have dissapeared altogether.
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850

    California wanted to become a state. Should it be a free state or Slave state? California is added as a free state but, as a compromise if a slave escapes up North they most be returned to their owner.
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom's Cabin

    This book showed the horrible nature of slavery and what really happened. It kept Europe out of the civil war becaue they previously had backed the south. They didn't supporrt slavery. The cotton industry also started to collapse with the loss of Europe' s business.
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Dred Scott Supreme Court Decision

    Dred Scott Supreme Court Decision

    Dred Scott thought that since he was living in a free state that he was a free man. The Suupreme Court decision was that even though he was in a free state, he is still property of this owner. That means he was still a slave. This now alowed slavery everywhere.
  • Lincoln-Duglass Debate

    Lincoln-Duglass Debate

  • Jonh's Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry

    Jonh's Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry

  • Election of Lincoln

    Election of Lincoln

  • Secession of South Carolina

    Secession of South Carolina

  • Attack on Fort Sumter

    Attack on Fort Sumter

    Fort Sumter is an American fort. South carolina is it's own country now and doesn't want American troops in there land. They attack the Americans and force their surrender.