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The Missouri Compromise
Missouri wanted to be admitted in to the Union states.This led to the civil war because the north feared that having a new slave state would give the southerners more power. -
Division of political parties Election of 1848
Slavery causes break ups and new political parties.This led to the civil war because the Free soil party was against slavery in western territories and the whig party let the people vote through popular sovereignty. -
Failed Compromise
Land obtained from the Mexican American War ,Opened vast lands to America.California, Utah ,and New mexico wanted to enter the Union, this lead to conflict be cause the North didn't want slavery to expand.However the south favored slavery and felt it was unfair for congress to ban the expansion of slavery. -
Fugitive Slave Act
This law allowed for a slave owner to enter a free state and round up his fugitive slave.The northerners saw this as a threat because their goal was to abolish slavery however the south was making it impossible -
Kansas Nebrska Act
Americans wanted to build a transcontinental railroad to unite the west coast with the rest of the united states.This led to the civil war because the North wanted a northern route and the south wanted a southern route.This divided the Nebraska territory in to two. -
Bleeding Kansas
Proslavery and free-state settlers flooded into Kansas to try to influence the decision. Violence soon erupted as both parties fought for control. Abolitionist John Brown led anti-slavery fighters in Kansas -
Dred scott decision
This became a very controversial case before the civil war, Dred Scott was a fugitive slave that ran to free state and was later rounded up ,the court decided not to help him because he was not a citizen -
Lincoln Douglas debates
were a series of seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. -
The Election of 1860
This election was one of the causes of the civil war because every candidate had a different goal.Abraham Lincoln was part of the republican party and his goal was to not end slavery but stop the expansion of it.John bell wanted to completely keep the union, and Stephen Douglas was gonna handle slavery through popular sovereignty. -
Fort Sumter battle
it was the first battle of the civil war was the bombardment of U.S. Fort Sumter near Charleston, South Carolina by the Confederates, the return gunfire, and subsequent surrender by the US Army that started the American Civil War
