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Slavery
Forced Labor, long term cause. -
Missouri Compromise
Re examine issue of slavery, long term cause. -
Compromise of 1850
Used popular S. to solve debate of slavery. Ended Slave trade in DC. Long term cause. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stone wrote it. Shows separation. Fitional book on slavery. Beginning of short term causes. -
Kansas-Nebraska act
Used popular s. slave/free territory. -
Bleeding Kansas
Abolitionists and pro slave rush into KS to vote. -
Brooks Attacks Sumner
Brooks SC hits Sumner with cane during debate. -
Republican Party formed
Whigs know-nothin and free soilers. No expansion of slavery. -
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
Slaves are property. Slaves can live anywhere -
Lincoln-Douglas debates
Debate issue of Lincoln gets Native American attention. Anti-expansion of slavery. -
Election of 1860
Electoral college with no southern votes. Lincoln wins. Spark that led to the war. -
Southern Secession
Other states follow. formed CSA. Jefferson Davis President. -
Firing on Ft.Sumter, SC
1st shots of civil war. CSA tried to capture USA fort to get Lincoln allowed SC to take it.
