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Missouri Compromise
Congress orchestrated a two-part compromise, granting Missouri’s request but also admitting Maine as a free state. The Missouri Compromise was an effort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted. This was significant to causing the civil war because it upset the balance of half the states being slaves states and others being free. -
Abolitionist Movement
From the 1830s until 1870, the abolitionist movement attempted to achieve immediate emancipation of all slaves and the ending of racial segregation and discrimination. Radical abolitionism was partly fueled by the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening, which prompted many people to advocate for emancipation on religious grounds. This was significant in causing a Civil War because it split up the south and north in terms of slave/free states and also due to religious animosity. -
Fugitive Slave Act/Underground Railroad
The Fugitive Slave Acts were a pair of federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of runaway slaves within the territory of the United States. It authorized local governments to seize and return escaped slaves to their owners and imposed penalties on anyone who aided in their flight. No actual trains existed on the Underground Railroad. This caused the civil war because it was very controversial law. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Stowe wrote a novel on slavery tto inform a wide population of the American people just how terrible slavery was, And the plot of Stowe’s novel portrays how slavery operated as a business. The buying and selling of humans provide major turns in the plot, and there is a particular focus on how the traffic in slaves separated families. This caused the civil war because people were starting to gain awareness on an issue that was all around them. -
John Brown and Bledding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory.An act decreed that the residents would determine whether the area became a free state or a slave state. Proslavery and free-state settlers flooded into Kansas to try to influence the decision. Violence erupted because both sides were trying to fight for control. -
Dred Scott Decision
United States Supreme Court issues a decision in the Dred Scott case, affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories, therebynegating the doctrine of popular sovereignty and severely undermining the platform of the newly created Republican Party.This was significant in causing the Civil War because it contradicted things that the North had already been saying, which created further animosity and split the North and South up even more. -
The Election of 1860
The election of 1860 was when Abraham Lincoln was elected into office. And there was a lot of controversy because Abraham Lincoln was not pro-slavery and he didn't want slavery to be a nation-wide thing. This was the cause for the civil war because the south and north had different opinions on Abraham Lincoln and this further seperated them. -
Southern Succession
When Abraham Lincoln was elected as president in 1860. Southerners thought the government was becoming too strong. They did not think the government had the right to tell them how they should live. Southerners felt if they stayed in the United States, the North would control them. So they decided to sucede or leave the union. And this was a cause of the civil war because it even further split up the Union and almost destroyed it completely. -
Fort Sumter
On April 10, 1861, knowing that resupplies were on their way from the North to the federal garrison at Fort Sumter in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, provisional Confederate forces in Charleston demanded the fort’s surrender. The fort’s commander, Major Robert Anderson, refused. On April 12, the Confederates opened fire with cannons. At 2:30 p.m. the following day, Major Anderson surrendered. This was a cause for the civil war because it created even more tnesion between the union.
