Causes of the Civil War Timeline:

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  • Invention of the cotton gin

    Invention of the cotton gin

    It sped up the production of cotton.

  • Missouri Compromise

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin

    Uncle Tom’s Cabin

    it got people angry

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Dred Scott Supreme Court decision

  • John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry

    John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry

    It failed epiley
  • Election of Lincoln

    Election of Lincoln

    it made the sutherners angey

  • Secession of South Carolina

  • Attack on Fort Sumter

    Attack on Fort Sumter

    it started the civli war