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The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was an escape route for slaves to help them escape from there slave owners in the South. The escape route was made up of series of safe houses and farm wagons. This lead to the Civil War because the slave owners where losing their slaves, which meant they were also losing their money, and because of the slaves escaping the created the Fugitive Slave Act. -
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Civil War Causes & Events
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The Compromise of 1850
California was admitted to the Union as the 16th free state. In exchange, the South was guaranteed that no restrictions of slavery would be placed on Utah or New Mexico. Texas and New Mexico were fighting a battle, which Texas lost their boundary claims in New Mexico, but Congress gave Texas $10 million for giving up part of their state. Slavery was maintained in the Nation’s Capital, Washington DC, but the slave trade was prohibited. This event was a cause of the Civil War because the Compromis -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act was a law that was made due to all the slaves that escaped on the Underground Railroad. This Acts states that you must provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory. As a result of that, slaves were being captured in the North and sent back to the South, but they just didn’t want their slaves back, they were capturing free blacks in the North and sending them back to the South to be slaves, and that was upsetting the North a lo -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a book about slaves and slaveholders through three characters, Eliz, a mom, Eva, her daughter, and Uncle Tom. This was a cause of the Civil War because the book revealed how slaves were treated and after everyone knew how slaves were treated, they wanted to ban slavery. -
The Kansas/Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed territory to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty. Kansas with slavery would violate the Missouri Compromise. The long-standing compromise would have to be repealed. Opposition was intense, but ultimately the bill passed in May of 1854. Territory north of the sacred 36°30' line was now open to popular sovereignty and the North was outraged. Due to the bill, the political parties Whigs were broken up because the northern Wigs opposed the -
The Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri, but his owner moved him to Illinois and Wisconsin. Scott thought that since he had lived in free states, he was a free man. In 1846, Scott sued for his freedom on the grounds that he had lived in a free state and a free territory for a period of time. After 11 years, his case reached the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruled the even though Scott was living in the northern territory did not make him free once he returned to Missouri, the Court further ruled t -
John Brown Raid
In 1859, Brown and 18 of his men entered into the small town of Harpers Ferry, Virginia. John Brown and his men marched into Harper's Ferry and seized the federal complex with little resistance. Then he then sent some of him men of patrol out into the country to contact slaves and collected several hostages, but they never returned, and he was surrounded by local citizens and militia, exchanging gunfire, killing two townspeople and eight of Brown's men. Brown was caught and was soon to be tried
