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The 3/5 compromise
The three-fifths compromise counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person. This enraged the North because Slaves are now part of the union. -
Northwest Ordinance
Once a territory achieved statehood, they had the same footing as the original 13, in congress. The south saw this as a way to create new states without slavery as a win for the north. -
First protective tariff
The south wanted cheaper textiles which would be achieved by oversees manufacturing and not buying them from the north. -
2nd Great Awakening
Reforms took the shape of social movements for temperance, women’s rights, and the abolition of slavery. Social activists began efforts to reform prisons and care for the handicapped and mentally ill. The south was angered by all the reformists trying to abolish slavery -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri compromise allowed Maine to be admitted as a free state alongside the slave state Missouri. The south saw this as a way for the north to keep control of free states in Government eventually allowing them to abolish it -
Kansas-Nebraska line
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act infuriated many in the North who considered the Missouri Compromise to be a long-standing binding agreement. In the pro-slavery South it was strongly supported. -
The election of president Lincoln
This was the final straw for the Pro-slave south. They would not be under to control of a Pro-North president who was barely elected due to slim margins. This caused the first state to secede from the Union
