causes of the civil war

slavery

• Slavery was 40% of the southern population
• there were people trying to get rid of it they were called abolitionists.
• The north wanted to get rid of it.
• The south wanted to keep slavery 
• The south waned to have slaves  do all their work they were to lazy 

states rights

•  The Missouri Compromise in 1820 tried to solve the problem but succeeded only temporarily
• There was a debate over which powers rightly belonged to the states
•  and which to the Federal Government
• North and the South became more and more different, their goals separated

abolition movement

• The goal of the abolitionist movement was the immediate
• emancipation of all slaves.
• and the end of racial discrimination and segregation
•  Radical abolitionism was partly fueled by the religious fervor

harriet beecher stowe

• Harriet Elisabeth Beecher was born June 14, 1811
• She wrote "Uncle toms Cabins"
• Famous author 
• Numerous articles, and journalsher 
• essays and short stories regularly published in newspapers

compromise of 1850

• It was a series of bills passed mainly to address issues related to slavery.
• The Compromise of 1850 is composed of five statues enacted in September of 1850
• drafted by Whig Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky
•  brokered by Clay and Democrat Stephen Douglas, avoided
• secession or civil war and reduced sectional conflict for four years.

Kansas nebraska act

• It created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska
• defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states
•   Texas would relinquish the land in dispute but be given 10 million dollars 
• The idea of this act was to make many thousands of new farms and maker 

John brown

•  first white American abolitionistst 
• believed violence would stop southerners
• he commanded many forces

dred scott vs. sanford

• court ordered slaves that were not citizens of the united states  
• they got no protection
• congress could not ban/ get rid of slavery in a federal territory  

election of 1860

• Major event leading up to the civil war 
• Abraham Lincoln won the election
• southerners were ready to secede
• Southerners thought that Lincoln was going to abolish slavery.

I believe that slavery was the most important issue that caused the Civil War. because there was so much tension between the north and the south.

bibliography

• Ahttp://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=27dd first list item here
• http://www.oakparkusd.org/Page/2752
• http://www.learntci.com/student