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Missouri Compromise
Slavery came up again and there was already tension between the north and south. The south was more agricultural and the north was more industrial. -
The Abolitionists Movement
was an effort to end slavery in a nation that valued personal freedom and believed "all men are created equal." Abolitionest became more demanding with there demands and it eventually led to civil war. -
Manifest Destiny
The Manifest Destiny was considered a cause of the Civil War because it made Americans to expand westward. The result of expansions was the North & South debuting over the new lands would be slave states or free slaves. All of these conflicts tore the nation further apart leading to the declaration of the Civil War. -
Mexican American War
was caused by the unresolved border dispute between Texas and Mexico. The United States and the Republic of Mexico had been at war over territorial disputes. -
Compromise of 1850
Slaves attempted to live in the north to make a life.
They captured many blacks even free blacks and sent them to the south. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Officers were fined $1,000 if they didn't capture a runaway slave. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
Balance the number of free states and slave states. -
Supreme Court Dred Scott vs. Sandford
Debating if he should be free
just because they moved into a free slave state it still makes it their property -
Abraham election day
Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States, beating Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, John C. Breckinridge of the Southern Democrats, and John Bell of the new Constitutional Union Party. He was the first president from the Republican Party. -
Compromise of 1887
Debate at the Constitutional Convention over how slaves should be counted towards representation. North did not want the slaves to count because more representatives for the south in the House of Representatives. South wanted the slaves vote to count.
