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Kansas-Nebraska Acts
Description: Allowed the states of Kansas and Nebraska to decide on becomin A free or slave state based on popular sovereignty.
Significance: It is an example of a dividing decision
Causes: A need for a fair way to admit Kansas and Nebraska
Effects: Anger in the north and south, violent protests -
Dred Scott vs. Sandford
Description: A slave was attempting to sue for his freedom for being enslaved in a free state and lost horribly
Significance: It was an example of the unfair process of trials for blacks
Causes: Slaveholders still existed above the Missouri Compromise line
Effects: Slaves could not be citizens and the Missouri sompromise was deemed unconstitutional. -
Election of Lincoln
Description: Lincoln won both the popular vote and the Elecoral College
Significance: The election was the first victory for Republicans.
Causes: Lincoln had won over both the north and the west assuring him a victory.
Effects: Some southern states seceeded from the Union -
Secession of South Carolina
Description: Outraged that what they considered an abolitionist had become president South Carolina left the Union
Significance: South Carolina was the firt state to leave the Union
Causes: Election of President Lincoln and the Southern views of Republicans
Effects: Further secessions and ultimately the Civil War. -
Start of Civil War
Description: While dealing with weapons shippments at fort sumner shots were fired between southern troops and union troops.
Significance: Americas first full on internal war
Causes: Increasing tensions between the confederate and Union states as well as economic differences
Effects: Highest amount of deaths in any american war and a long road of reconstruction
