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Causes of the Civil War

By 16mbiviano

  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    defused a four year confrontation between the southern slave states and the north. Temporarily avoided secession or civil war at the time and it quieted a sectional conflict for 4 years.

  • Fugitive Slave Law

    Element of the 1850 compromise. Said that all escaped slaves had to be returned to their former masters. Only made Northerners want to cooperate less.

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin Publication

    Uncle Tom's Cabin Publication
    Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1853. Influenced england's view on the American Deep South and slavery. a novel promoting abolition. intensified sectional conflict.

  • Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854

    Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.

  • Birth of the Republican Party

    The party's founders totally opposed slavery. Didn't believe congress had the right to recognize slavery in territory. The Party wanted Congress to abolish slavery in the territories and ought to do so.

  • Brooks Attacks Sumner in Senate

    Brooks Attacks Sumner in Senate
    Southern Congressman Preston Brooks beat Northern Senator Charles Sumner in Congress. Exemplified differences between North and South.

  • Dred Scott v. Sanford

    A slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his stay in Louisiana Territory made free land by the Missouri Compromise made him a free man. The Court ruled that he couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen.

  • John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry

    John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
    Brown led an attack on a pro-slavery settlement. Ultimatley failed. It made any cooperation between North and South nearly impossible.
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    John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

    Brown led an attack on a pro-slavery settlement. Ultimatley failed. It made any cooperation between North and South nearly impossible.

  • Election of 1860

    Republican Lincoln won the 1860 election. South wouldn't accept this, and a few weeks later South Carolina secceeded from the unioun. More tension between North and South.

  • Shots fired at Fort Sumter

    Shots fired at Fort Sumter
    Bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter. It was the beginning of the Civil War.