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Civil war causes

Published on Nov 21, 2015

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1.

COMPRIMISE OF 1850

  • date 1850
  • Admitted California into union as free state
  • Allowed new Mexico and Utah to decide issue of slavery
  • Created fugitive slave law.
  • Made different laws for different states
2.

FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT

  • 1850
  • Required Northernes to help catch run away slaves
  • Made Northerners mad because they didn't want to have to support slaverry
3.

UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

  • 1852
  • Novel that fueled the anti slavery movement
  • Caused bitterness between the North and the South
4.

KANSAS NEBRASKA ACT

  • 1854
  • An act that created the Kansas and Nebreaska terretories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing settlers to determin the slavery issue
  • the impact Northerners saw slavery coming closer
5.

BLEEDING KANSAS

  • 1856
  • Bloody strugle over slavery
  • Cuased attacks between proslavery and antislavery settlers
6.

DRED SCOTT DECISION

  • 1857
  • Decision by supreme court that held that africain amercain could never be cite ens of the united states and that Missouri Comprimise was unconstitutional
  • South was delighted--North was stuned
7.

HARPERS FERRY

  • 1859
  • Abolistionist John Brown seized the federal arsenal at herppers ferry Virginia
  • South was fearfull, North saw brown as a hero
8.

ELECTION OF 1860

  • date 1860
  • Abraham Lincoln was elected presedent
  • showed how totally divided the nation had become
9.

CANING OF CHARLES SUMNER

  • date 1856
  • senator charles sumner massachusetts was beat on the senate floor by south corolina preston brooks
  • the attack showed how divided the country had become
10.

POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY

  • date 1854
  • Ruled by the people
  • made northers fearful the slaverywas coming closer
11.

LINCOLN DOUGLAS DEBATES

  • date 1858
  • a series of political debates between Lincoln and Douglas about whether the nation could go on being half-slave and half-free
  • showed comprimise over slavery was not possible
12.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

  • elected presedent with just 40 percent of the vote
  • date 1860
  • South realized ther were in the minority and slavery would be abolished

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