Causes of American Civil War y Jorge Barea

By George Barea
  • 1861 BCE

    Secession

    The Sotherners became minority in Congress. Seven slave states declared their secession and formed a Confederation, a separate nation.
  • 1861 BCE

    Attack to Fort Sumter

    Confederate forces bombarded the fort in order to surrender Northern tropos. They took the fort and the North tried to recapture the fort and other federal properties.
  • 1860 BCE

    Lincoln as President

    The lection of Abraham Lincoln in November 1960 drifted to the secession.
    Southerners believed that Lincoln would stop spread of slavery.
  • 1853 BCE

    Incitment to slave rebellion

    There were abolitionist movements which encouraged slave rebellions. One of these men was John Brown.
    Southerners feared an event in Santo Domingo where women, children were killed after slaves revolt in Haití.
  • 1852 BCE

    Honor and profound nationalism

    The Southerners were loyal to the south regon of US. The Uncle Tom´s Cabin appeared by 1952 and the South men thought it was an insult to them.
  • 1850 BCE

    Political tension for slavery

    The Republican Party did not slavery to spread although the Southerners threatened secession if the Republican candidate, Lincoln won the 1860 election.
  • 1848 BCE

    Anextion of land encouraged slavery

    The US anexed territories in Mexico and slavery was carried to those regions. There was the free-soil interests. The forces pro and anti-slavery collided.
  • 1846 BCE

    The Northerners insisted in antislavery reasons

    The doctrine championed by Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party insisted that slavery should be excluded from the territories because of the Constitution.
  • 1840 BCE

    Differences in economy and slavery in North-South

    There were enormous diffferences in economic activities. Northerners were industrialized and urbanized cities while the South were cotton plantations based on slave labor
  • 1820 BCE

    Low Tax Tariffs

    The South controlled tax Tariff in Congress. The North wanted tariffs raise up because of manufacturin interests generated by industry. These taxes only increased after the North left Congress during war.
  • 1812 BCE

    Differences between Northerners and Southerners

    There were important differences between the Nortyh and the South during the Anglo- American war .