THE ROAD TO THE CIVIL WAR

THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE

• The Missouri compromise was a big deal because there were 22 states and at the time the states were evenly divided, if Missouri wanted to be a part of the US it would be uneven.
• Henry Clay created the Missouri Compromise
• The three provisions of the Missouri compromise was A. Maine was admitted as a free state. B. Missouri was admitted as a slave state. C. Slavery would not be allowed in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase.

THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH

• The major differences between the north and the south are that the north had more diversified economy on free labor. The south had an argarian economy based on slave labor
• The cultural differences between the north and the south are that in the south they were more focused on agriculture and in the north they were mostly focused on the money.

COMPROMISE OF 1850

• The compromise of 1850 was a big deal because there was a gold rush and that causes a big population and that causes a slavery issue
• Again Henry clay proposed the compromise of 1850
• The three parts to the compromise of 1850 were

THE FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT

• The fugitive slave act was a part of the compromise of 1850
• This required the Northerners to have all the slaves that have escaped to return to their masters.
• This made the northerners mad because it forced them to support slavery

KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT

• Stephan Douglas proposed the Kansas-Nebraska act
• The act served to repel the Missouri compromise of 1850 which prohibited slavery
• The Kansas-Nebraska act was passed down to congress on May 30th, 1854. This was to decide if Kansas should be a slave free state. The Act repealed the Missouri Compromise which prohibited slavery in the North.
• Roghians are pro-slavery activists from the slave state of Missouri who from 1854 to 1860 crossed the state border into Kansas territory.

DRED SCOTT

• Dred Scott was a slave who was owned by his master, John Emerson. Then Emerson died they got put on trail a lot and finally were free then Dred Scott died by Tuberculosis.
• The argument in the Supreme Court was if Dred Scott and his family should be free from slavery
• Roger Taney ruled that blacks, slave or free, could not be citizens. Nor could Scott have become free by traveling north of the Missouri Compromise.
• Anti-slavery leaders in the North cited the controversial Supreme Court decision as evidence that Southerners wanted to extend slavery throughout the nation and ultimately rule the nation itself. That is why it angered them.

LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES

• Lincoln and Douglas were debating because Lincoln said that the National policy was to limit the spread of slavery and he mentioned the northwest ordain of 1787 as an example of his policy
• Lincoln’s stance on slavery, race equality, and African American colonization are often intermixed.
• The debates concerned the issue of slavery and its extension into territory’s such as Kansas.

THE ELECTION OF 1860

• President Lincoln won the election
• It shows that John Bell was lesser of a president and that Lincoln was the better president.
• Seven Southerners states seceded following Lincoln was the better president
• South Carolina, it became the first state to declare its secession from the union on December 20th, 1860