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Free Soil Movemnt
Northerners who opposed allowing slavery in the territories
organized the Free Soil party. They sought to keep the West along of opportunity for whites only so that the white majority would not have to compete with the labor of slaves or free blacks.
This lead to civil war because of the open land in the West for Americans for better economic opportunity.
" Free Soil, Free labor and free men." -
Wilmot Proviso
Believed that all African American slave and free should be excluded from the Mexican Cession.
This upset the Compromise of 1820 and the balance of 15 free and 15 slave states which was one of the things that lead up to the civil war due to the Free soil movement.
" Provided, That as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue any treaty which may be negotiated between them ..." -
Compromise of 1850
New Mexico had very little interest in applying for statehood
- Admit Cali to the Union as a free state
- Divide the remainder of Mexican Cession into 2 territories Utah and NM & allow the settlers in those to decide slavery issue
- Ban slave Trade in the District of Columbia but permit whites to hold slaves as before
- Adopt new Fugitive Slave law and enforce it.
This lead up to the civil war to the Fugitive Slave Act by forcing non-slave holders to join this.
" Union which shall be torn". -
Uncle Toms Cabin
Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe moved a generation of Northerners as well as many Europeans to regard all slave owners as cruel and in human. Southerners were not happy about this at all. This lead to the civil war because it began a Crisis for South the book had attacked slavery from another angle. South saw slavery as a positive thing while the North was against it. -
Republican Party Formed
Republican Party was founded as a direct reaction to the way of the Kansas Nebraska Act. . As violence increased in Kansas more people including some abolitionist joined the Republican Party. It was soon the second largest party in the country but remained strictly as Northern or sectional party which threatened the south.
This lead up to the civil was because of the antislavery and southern states had took action in this. -
Kansas Nebraska Act
He was in need of Southern approval so, Douglas introduced a bill to divide the Nebraska Territory into 2 parts, The Kansas T (territory and Nebraska T and allow settlers in each territory to decided whether to allow slavery or not. These Territories were located north of the 36*30 line, Douglas bill have Southern slave owners opportunity to expand slavery.
This event caused the US cover to the civil war because this act caused conflicts between antislavery and proslavery forces exploded -
Bleeding Kansas incidents
Settlers weren't able to settle peacefully by the antislavery farmers from the Midwest who migrated to Kansas. Which they did have a majority part of the population however, slaveholders from neighboring state of Missouri and set up homesteads in Missouri to win control of the territory for South. Fighting soon broke out between the proslavery and antislavery groups as the territory aka "bleeding Kansas"
This lead closer to the civil war because of the disputes over territory matters. -
Canning Of Charles Sumner
Massachusetts Senator Charles verbally attacked the Democratic administration in a criticism speech "The Crime Against Kansas" The remarks included personal charges against South Carolina Senator Andrew Butler. Congressman Preston Brooks (butlers nephew) defended his uncle by walking into the senate chamber and beating Sumner over the head with a cane. This outraged the North and The house voted to censure him. This lead us closer to the civil was because it outraged the North. -
Dred Scott V. Sanford decision
Scott has been held in slavery in Missouri and then taken to the free territory of Wisconsin where he lived for two years before returning to Missouri. Arguing that his residence on free soil made him a free citizen, Scott sued for his freedom. Court decided against because he had no right to sue, congress didn't have power, Missouri compromise was unconstitutional because it excluded slavery.
This led closer to the civil war because it helped lead to Abraham Lincolns election -
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
This debate was for who would win the seat of the US Senate. Lincoln challenged Douglas to reconcile popular sovereignty with the Dred Scott decision. Douglas said that slavery could not exist in a community if the local citizens did not pass slave codes. Lincoln said this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. Douglas won the campaign.
This lead to the civil war because it brought slavery to become even a bigger issue which made Southerners upset -
John Browns Raid on Harpers Ferry
John brown lead a small band of followers, included his four sons and former slaves, in the attack on the federal arsenal at harpers Ferry. The plan he had was to use guns from the arsenal to arm Virginia slaves which h e expected to rise up in general revolt. Robert E Lee captured Brown and the band. Brown and six of his followers were tried for treason and convicted. This lead to the civil war because it brought out the Norths true intention to use slave results to destroy the South. -
Election Of Lincoln
. Abraham Lincoln was seen as a candidate who could carry the key Midwestern states of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. Lincoln carried everyone of the free states of the North, which represented a solid majority of 59 percent of the electoral votes which he had won by 39.8 percent of popular votes.
This lead up to the civil war because of states and the union was at a losing point for south
