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Forced Labor, long term cause.
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Re examine issue of slavery, long term cause.
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Used popular S. to solve debate of slavery. Ended Slave trade in DC. Long term cause.
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Harriet Beecher Stone wrote it. Shows separation. Fitional book on slavery. Beginning of short term causes.
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Used popular s. slave/free territory.
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Abolitionists and pro slave rush into KS to vote.
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Brooks SC hits Sumner with cane during debate.
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Whigs know-nothin and free soilers. No expansion of slavery.
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Slaves are property. Slaves can live anywhere
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Debate issue of Lincoln gets Native American attention. Anti-expansion of slavery.
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Electoral college with no southern votes. Lincoln wins. Spark that led to the war.
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Other states follow. formed CSA. Jefferson Davis President.
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1st shots of civil war. CSA tried to capture USA fort to get Lincoln allowed SC to take it.