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Missouri Compromise
during the purchace of louisiana purchase,congress wanted to compell a policy to guide the expansion of slavery into the new western territory. In addition congress reached a serious of arguments . The state of missouri was admitted as a slave state and maine was admitted as free state, trying to get balance. This lead to the civil war, becausesoutherners were angry for dividing north and south as free and slave. -
Nat turner`s Rebellion
In the year of 1831 a slave named Nat Turner and 55 slaves spread through several plantations in southern virginia and killed around 60 white people. The virgina law makers reacted to the crisi by rolling back what few civil right slaves . The right to assemble was severely limited, which caused this to lead to the civil war. -
Mexican -American war
the demographicsd of immgratiom ment that the north was pulling steadily ahead of the south in the house of represenatives by the the mexican american war. the cause was enormously and brought crisis quickly. -
Compromise of 1850
The compromise of 1850 consist of 5 laws that dealt with the issue of slavery. It prevented territorial expansion of slavey. The northerners seized and return escaped slaves to the south. This led to the civil war by reinforcing the structural disparity that divided the United States. -
The Fugitive Slave Act
The fugitivee slave act were a pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of U.S. Northern whites resented having to be desputize, or forced into hunting slaves, against their wills by the officials enforcing the act. -
Uncle Tom`s Cabin
Uncle Tom`s Cabin was a book by Harriet beecher stowe`s which showed northerners the reality of slave life. It felt as if their eyes had been opened to horrors of slavery. The book was an event that caused the civil war because it became so popoular, brought the issue of slavery to life for those few who remained unmoved after decades of legislative. -
Bleeding Kansas 1854 -1861
Bleeding Kansas was a serious of violent political conformations that involved anti-slaveryelements in kansas. They clashed lead to the civil war because it led to the establishment of the republican party. -
The Kansas Nebraska Act
by the early 1850`s settelers wanted to move into the area now known as nebraska, but the only reason why settelers wouldnt move there was because they could not legally hold a claim on the land. This led to war because the bill mandated popular soverignty allowing settelers of territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within new border states. -
Dred scott v. Sanford
Dred scott was a virginia slave who tried to sue for his freedom in court. The court found that as a slave dred scott was a piece of property that had none of the legal rights or recognition afforded to a human being. -
Election of Abraham
Abraham is known as a legislator who won the election of 1860. What made this election unusal in many ways that are really important to southerners democrats who actually wanted their party to lose. basiclly it was an excuse to leave the union.
