Causes of The Civil War

  • Missouri compromise

    Missouri would become a slave state and Main and free state
    blacenced the slave ans free states but not a long-term solution
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    Causes of The Civil War

  • Wilmot Proviso

    Any land accurde to Mexico would be a slave state
    Southerners were mad, because they wanted slavery to spread but the north dident want slavery to spread
  • Compromise of 1850

    The 5 main parts of Clay's original plan,Fillmore called it the compromise a "final statement"of the conflict between the north and the south
    another temporary solution
  • Dred scott Decision

    A court of the freedom of Dred Scott.Dred Scott won and become a free man but his owners wife went to the suprem court and Dred Scott had to fight for his freedom again
  • Uncle Toms Cabin

    Harrie beecher stowe wrote a book about slavery
    Raged the north to work against slavery
  • Kansas/Nebraska act

    Dispute over slvery erupted in congress a bill stated that a state could now have slavery by Popular sovereisnty
    Many felt it undid the Missouri Compromise
  • Bleeding Kansas

    People who were against slavery and those who suppored slavery moved to Kansas to vote on whether Kansas would be a free state of a slave state
    the violence started to grow first violent clash over slavery
  • Lincoln-Douglas debates

    Lincoln and Douglas were depadeing for a seat in the sencten neirther liked slavery but had different depensions
    People in the south thougth that Lincoln was tring to tack away slavery
  • Raid on harbors faire john brown

    John Brown tried to Cause a uprise of slaves to fight the south jahn brown became a hero of the north and he had conviced the south that the north was out to destroy slavery
  • Lincolns elected

    Lincoln won all of the nothern states votes 40% and bearly any votes from the south some southen states dident even have him on the bord to be elected Southern thought that Loncoln would revlts slavery and they dident want that.Lincoln just wanted to get rid of slavery
  • South carolina seceded

    The south held a special covention and voted to secede nation heads to war as Lincolns goal isto preserve the union