Causes of the Civil War

  • Miissouri Compromise

    Northeners wanted Missouri as a free state
  • Compromise of 1850

    Gold is discovered in California thousands of people start living there
  • election

    pro slavery and anti slavery both try to win president abraham doesn not win
  • debate between lincoln and douglas

    democrate and republican difference one wants slavery and lincoln doesnt
  • Kansas-nebraska act

    The Kansas-Nebraska Act, was a law passed by Congress that would use POPULAR SOVERINGITY to decide the Slavery issue in the Kansas-Nebraska Territory.