causes ofthe civil war

  • missouri compromise

    where slavery were and not allowed
  • compromise of 1850

    California is a free state
    Mexican cession= Utah and New Mexico
    slave trade in Washington DC ended
    strict fugitive slave law
  • Fugative slave law

    required law for citizens to catch any runaway slaves
    (northerners didn't want to be included)
  • uncle tom's cabin

    -written by Harriett Beecher Stowe.
    -telling the story of a slave who was whipped to death by his owner.
    -northerners began to change their view of slavery.
  • kansas-nebraska. act

    divided Kansas and Nebraska into territories
  • pottowatomi creek killings

    John Brown and four of his sons ride into a small town named and pull five pro-slavery men out of their beds in the middle of the night kill them
  • dred scott decision

    -Dred Scott was a slave
    -congress could not ban slavery in any state, repealing Missouri compromise
  • lincoln-douglass debate

    -Douglass believed in deciding slavery by popular sovereignty.
    -Lincoln believed that slavery shouldn't be allowed to spread into the territories.
  • election of 1860

    -lincoln won the election

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