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The Missouri Compromise
This compromise helped drive the separation of the state's from each other even further instead of working out their differences they drove the states even further apart. -
Abolitionist Movement
The movement helped fuel the civil war because the free starters were starting to fight back more and more. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The rounding-up of runaway slaves. The North felt that these "slaves" deserved to be free, but with this act the south was allowed to round up their slaves that ran away. This fueled the flame of sectionalism and the civil war. -
Bleeding Kansas
Violent acts between the North and South. Abolitionists were attacked at Lawrence. John Brown armed local slaves in a revolt. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Popular Sovereignty too vote if their state would be a free state or slave state. Caused northerners and southerners to move to Kansas to influence the vote. Led to Bleeding Kansas -
Dred Scott v.s. Sanford
A colored man who was given freedom was sued for being free when "he shouldn't be free". He was wrongly convicted just because of his color. North felt he should have been free like all slaves, but south wouldnt allow him to be free. This event drove North and South farther apart leading to the Civil War. -
Lincoln- Douglas Debates
Brought the hatred for each topic. Lincoln supported free states and Douglas supported the slave states. Debates over slavery fueling the fire of free states versus slave states. -
John Browns raid
John Brown led a slavery revolt in Harpers Ferry. John armed the local slaves with weapons. Fueled the tension between abolitionists and slave owners. -
Election of Abraham Lincoln
Northern supporters Elected Lincoln. Lincoln completely disagreed with southern ways. -
Industrial Economics vs. Agrarian Economics
It is a classic North vs. South because North the industrial economy didn't need slaves and thought it was unethical where as the South agrarian economy needed slaves for the farms and plantations they were to useful to them.
