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What happened?
Admitted California to the United States as a free state but allowed some acquired territories to decide on slavery for themselves. Five laws passed that dealt with the issue of slavery and territorial expansion. How it lead to civil war?
Had a Fugitive Slave Act which allowed officials to arrest any person accused of being a runaway slave, denied fugitives the right to a trial, and required all citizens to help capture runaway slaves upsetting citizens. -
What happened?
Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement. Effected repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty whether they would allow slavery. How did it lead to civil war?
The conflicts that arose between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers in the aftermath of the act's passage led to the period of violence known as Bleeding Kansas. -
What happened?
Mini civil-war between pro- and anti slavery people; in the end antislavery settlers would win the population race and vote Kansas as a free state in 1861. How did it lead to the civil war?
This crisis really pushed the North and South apart and had a great deal to do with causing the Civil War. -
What happened?
United States Supreme Court upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional. How did it lead to the civil war?
The north was shocked, because the highest court in America had declared it illegal for Congress to abolish slavery. They also felt that they should not listen to laws that were made solely by southern slaveholding citizens. -
What happened?
The debates consisted of Douglas accusing Lincoln of being an abolitionist while Lincoln accused Douglas of wanting to nationalize slavery. How did it lead to the civil war?
Douglas repeatedly attacked Lincoln's supposed radical views on race, claiming his opponent would not only grant citizenship rights to freed slaves but allow Black men to marry white women and that his views would put the nation on an inevitable path to war. -
What happened?
John Brown, a staunch abolitionist, and a group of his supporters left their farmhouse hide-out en route to Harpers Ferry. Descending upon the town in the early hours of October 17th, Brown and his men captured prominent citizens and seized the federal armory and arsenal. How did it lead to the civil war?
In an attempt to start an armed revolt of enslaved people and destroy the institution of slavery. -
What happened?
Lincoln won the Electoral College with less than 40 percent of the popular vote nationwide by carrying states above the Mason–Dixon line and north of the Ohio River, plus the states of California and Oregon in the Far West. How did it lead to the civil war?
Southern states began to secede, forming the Confederate States of America. This is how the Civil War began.