Causes of The Civil War

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  • Missouri Compromise

    This compromise was the act that stated any state North of 36º 30º
    would be free and any state below that would be a slace state. This was only a short term compromise.
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    Causes of the Civil War

  • Wilmot Proviso

    This prohibited land gained from Mexico from having slaves but it did not pass.

  • Compromise of 1850

    California became a free state as well as New Mexico and Washington D.C. would not allow trading or selling slaves.

  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Mandated the return of runaway slaves.

  • Dred Scott Decision

    The case went all the way to the Supreme Court and Dred Scott was still named a slave.

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a book, which stunned people with her description of slavery.

  • Kansas/ Nebraska Act

    The act that repealed the Missouri compromise.

  • Bleeding Kansas

    A fight against anti-slavery people versus pro-slavery people.

  • The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

    A series of debates against Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln who were both against slavery.

  • John Brown's Raid

    John Brown leed a raid to Harper's Ferry, Virginia.

  • Lincoln's Election

    Lincoln won the presidency.

  • South Carolina Secedes

    South Carolina was the first state to secede.