Civil war

causes of the civil war timeline and tension meter

By Eduardo_Mendez

  • the cotton gin is invented

    increased the demand for slavery, the economy of the south becomes dependent on slave labor

  • the industrial revolution causes

    north= manufacturing
    south= agriculture

  • the missouri compromise

    missouri enters as a slave state
    main enters a free state

  • tariff of abominations divides

    noth= supports it
    south= opposes it

  • william garrison

    publishes an abolitionits newspaper called "the liberator"

  • wilmot provise

    state
    all land gained from mexico would be free-angered souytherners-never passed

  • compromise of 1850

    california eneters as a free state
    slave trade outlawed in washington d.c.
    passage of the fugative slave law

  • fugative slave law

    runaway slaves had to be returned to their owners

  • uncle toms cabin

    author: harriet beacher stone
    impact: described the horrors of slavery made the abolition of slavery a priority on of the best selling books of all time

  • republican party created

    official platform was to stop the expansion of slavery