Civil War Causes

By BroganH
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    10 Events That let to The Civil War

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

    The compromise added Maine to The US as a free state while making Missouri a slave state.That had kept the balance between The North and South. The compromise also split the States by Slave and non-slave(South and North).It to was very controversial, and many worried that the country had become lawfully divided along sectional lines.
  • Slaves In The USA

    Slaves In The USA

    Do US state population in 1830 was about 2 million. Steve’s in the US are obviously one of the main reasons the Civil War happened. Euro Americans started to decide and fight over weather they should have slaves or not.
  • The Compromise of 1850

    The Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850 consisted of five laws that dealt with the issue of slavery and territorial expansion. These acts had stopped slave trade in the District of Columbia making safe serve justice for escaping their masters. Adding the state of California to the union establishing government for Utah. This compromise was important because it had created more tensions between weather state government should decide if that state is safe or non-slave
  • Fugitive  Slave Act

    Fugitive Slave Act

    This act was super controversial, it had increased fear of “slave power conspiracy” in the North. It stated the all escaped slaves, upon capture, be returned to their masters and that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate.
  • Uncle Tom’s cabin

    Uncle Tom’s cabin

    Uncle Tom’s cabin was written by an activist name Harriet Beecher Stowe she had written about the evil of slavery. This book has changed many peoples minds About slavery and it help further the cause of my activism.
  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas was known as the prelude to the Civil War about 200 people were killed in a series of violent confrontations in Kansas territory. These conflicts happen between 1854 and 1861 these conflicts were about years of electoral fraud raids assaults and murders carried out in Kansas and Missouri. This event was a cause of the Civil War because it was some of the first fighting between slave and non-slave states.
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Since the US had been gaining large amounts of land from the Louisiana’s purchase and more. Since the Missouri compromise stated that the states above the line were supposed to be Non-Slave And below Slave states. This act repealed this and had introduced the concept of popular sovereignty.
  • Dread Scot Case

    Dread Scot Case

    The case between Dred Scott and Sandford have been very impactful because a slave was able to fight for themselves in the court system .This case has destroyed the delicate agreement between slave and free states and it has also created nationwide anger that would lead to the Civil War
  • John Browns Raid

    John Browns Raid

    John Brown and 18 other men had planned to see’s town of Harpers Ferry and steal guns and ammo and arms slaves to create a slave rebellion. He would grow the rebellion by working his way along The Appalachian Mountains and freeing other slaves.But it didn’t last long. What It did do was create more tension about the topic of slavery.
  • Abraham Lincoln Elected as President

    Abraham Lincoln Elected as President

    Abe had won without a single Southern electoral vote it was a clear signal to the Southern states that they had lost all influence. The South had then decided that they were going to succeed from the nice and become independent. And felt that it was his presidential duty to stop the country from splitting up so he Stated “Shall It be peace , or the sword? “