causes of the civil war

By emily.naphys
  • The Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri Compromise

    There was a great debate over where slavery would be allowed and where it would not. A debate occurred and finally a compromise was reached. It was to create a balance between slave and freed states.
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850

    a series of laws passed in 1850 that dealt with the controversial issue of slavery in the United States.
  • Fugitive Slave Law

    Fugitive Slave Law

    The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state.
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabinet

    Uncle Tom’s Cabinet

    It is a story writer by Harriet Beecher Stowe about the effects on African Americans in the United States during slavery
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act

    The Kansas-Nebraska act reversed the Missouri Compromise and allowed slavery in the rest of the original areas of the Louisiana Purchase.
  • Dred Scott Decision

    Dred Scott Decision

    Dred Scott was a slave.He had lived in a free territory with his own slave owner.His owner had moved back into a slave state.While there, the slave owner died. Scott had abolitionist attorneys file a law suit for him.It went to the Supreme Court but he had lost. The court said that Scott was property and that he wasn’t a citizen which meant that he was unable to file a lawsuit.
  • Lincoln-Douglas Debate

    Lincoln-Douglas Debate

    It was a debate between the two men. Douglass had believed in deciding slavery by popular sovereignty and Lincoln believed that slavery shouldn’t be allowed to spread into the other territories.
  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860

    Lincoln ran against Douglas in the Presidential Election of 1860. The southern states did not like Lincoln and wanted Douglas to win and supported him, but Lincoln won.