Causes of the Civil War

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    Causes of Civil War

  • Nat Turner Revolt

    Slave, Turner and men, killed 4 plantation owners and 60 white males

  • Underground Railroad

    System of routes which runaway slaves used to get to freedom. Harriet Tubman helped runaways to freedom

  • Fugitive Law Act

    Congress passes law that slaves can't have fair and speedy trial. North made laws which negated the Fugitive Act

  • Bleeding Kansas

    The name for the massacre in Kansas due to excess fighting for Kansas terrority to be a slave state or free state

  • Election of Lincoln

    Lincoln won but with less than half the popular vote. Recieved free states support but lost support of South due to feeling they had no political voice

  • South Secession

    After Lincoln wins election, Southern states break away from Union forming Confederacy

  • Firing at Fort Sumter

    Confederate soliders take hd of Fort Sumter due to it being in Union's control but belonging to South. Lincoln didn't fight gave food to soliders while Davis fought back