The Causes of the Civil War

Missouri Compromise

May 16, 1820

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https://docs.google.com/a/rcs-k12.us/document/d/1giKRqSQguQgPy7wXBDg2-tj6swvDjwLrtQrSgI89G80/edit?usp=sharing
Here is a link to a primary source about the Missouri Compromise. This is about James Monroe signing the bill.
https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=003/llsl003.db&recNum=586

Wilmot Proviso

May 16, 1848

The Wilmot Proviso was a proposed bill to ban slavery in the new territories of the Mexican Cession. The bill passed through the house, but did not make it through the Senate. The bill was proposed by David Wilmot, a representative from Pennsylvania. He made the bill because he did not like slavery. He came up with the idea in 1848. The link shows what David Wilmot wrote about for the first time for the bill. (primary source)
https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/wilmot-proviso

Compromise of 1850

May 16, 1850

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Here is a link to a primary resource. This primary source is about how Henry Clay introduced the compromise through some resolutions. https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llcg&fileName=022/llcg022.db&recNum=331

The Fugitive Slave Act

May 16, 1850

The Fugitive Slave act was one of the five laws created in the Compromise of 1850. The Fugitive Slave Act states that any slaves that escaped from the south to the north must be returned to the slave owner in the south. It was very strict on anyone in the north that didn't turn in escaped slaves. The south got this law because the north wanted to eradicate the slave trade in Washington D.C. The link is a paper that is telling people the act passed. https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/sources/1047

Uncle Tom's Cabin

May 17, 1853

Here is a link with the description as all of it could not fit in the description box. https://docs.google.com/a/rcs-k12.us/document/d/1GsfRZ3qkWZy62hNOiRjxVwn3PQep8E6EogAWggr1o5o/edit?usp=sharing Here is another link to a primary source. This source is a picture of Eva and Topsy, characters in the story. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e2-ee40-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Bleeding Kansas

May 17, 1854

Here is a link with the description as the it could not all fit in the description box. https://docs.google.com/a/rcs-k12.us/document/d/1Z-6DM1JODFcxakmCgsBxvFAeNPxDX5CgYRn5S7ZIKp4/edit?usp=sharing Here is another link with a primary source. This primary source is a petition from people in Jackson County asking the state to protect them from the violence nearby in Kansas. http://www.civilwaronthewesternborder.org/content/petition-jackson-county-citizens

The Dred Scott Case

May 17, 1857

Here is a link with the description as it could not all fit in the description box. https://docs.google.com/a/rcs-k12.us/document/d/1hVAdTAjepXrk4oVwzljnY64ej5_0xH4PEB0bF5yqeGQ/edit?usp=sharing Here is another link that shows an overview of the court's decision (primary source). https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbcmisc.lst0084/?st=gallery

Lincoln and Douglas Debates

May 17, 1858

Abraham Lincoln was lawyer before, but the Kansas-Nebraska act brought him back to politics. Lincoln and Stephen Douglas then competed for a seat in the Senate in 1858. They also had seven debates in Illinois, mainly focusing on the topic of slavery. Lincoln was against it and Douglas was for it. Douglas ended up winning the seat, but the debates made Lincoln really popular. Here is a link with a paper that described what happened at the debates. http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/8976

John Brown's Raid

May 17, 1859

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Southern Secession

May 18, 1860

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Lincoln's Election of 1860

May 18, 1860

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