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Causes of the Cival War
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Missouri Compromise
The deal thought of by Henry Clay was that if the southern states agreed to the admission of Maine as a free state and Missouri would be admitted as a slave state. Another part of the compromise was the dividing line that was “drawn” across the US. Any state above that line is a free state and if the state is below than it’s a slave state. -
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
The bloody rebellion was forbidding the education of slaves, and further restricting their rights. 100 blacks and 57 whites were killed by Nat Turner who was found in a swap hiding and was eventually hanged. -
Slavery
Slavery was a hard time for blacks. They had to work so their masters won't get mad and if they did something wrong they had to face punishments even though it wasn’t a big deal. At this time blacks had no rights at all and most people thoiught it was unfair inculding some whites. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise made by Henry Clay was about the issue of slavery in America’s territories. They couldn’t decide which states were free and which ones were slave states. The slavery states got the fugitive slave act and the Free states got California and D.C. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas Nebraska Act was the issues of states’ rights and slavery. The states had a war about the rights and slavery that are allowed in the states. This battle was known as "Bleeding Kansas." -
John Brown Rebellion
When John Brown was 12 he stayed with a family in Michigan who continuously beat their slaves and this image haunted John for the rest of his life. Brown followed five of his sons to "Bleeding Kansas" and murdered five slavery advocates. Later John had a plan to free slaves by force. Two months later John was hanged in Charleston, Virginia. -
Secession
Secession is when a state or more than on leaves the country they are in. when Abraham Lincoln didn’t want slavery South Carolina thought that was unfair. Tennessee, North Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Arkansas, Virginia, Georgia, Texas, and Mississippi soon fallowed South Carolina and they all came to gather to leave the Union and make the Confederate States of America.