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The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was made to create a balance between slave states and non-slave states. Others felt that it made the north seem more powerful in its anti-slavery views. -
Manifest Destiny
When the US expanded to the Pacific Ocean Soldiers wanted the land to be slavery free but the south were angry because they wanted to expand slavery in the new land. -
Mexican-American War
This war brought many new lands and territories to the U.S. This caused the northerners to protect this land because they didn’t want slavery to expand in the new land. -
treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
A treaty between Mexico and United States that ended the Mexican War. This treaty helped precipitate civil war in both Mexico and the United Staes. -
Fugitive slave act
The fugitive slave act made the north angry. The reason for this was because the act made Northern citizens capture and return runaway slaves. But many Northerners wanted to help the slaves rather than capturing them -
Compromise of 1850
The compromise made the north aggressive for its anti-slavery views and made slaves return to the south -
The Kansas Nebraska act
Allowed people in territories of Nebraska and Kansas to decide if they would allow slavery to happen in their state. This grew tension because it repealed the compromise of 1820. -
Bleeding Kansas
The "Bleeding Kansas" could easily be said to have led to the Civil War because it led to the rise and come up of the Republican Party. -
Dred Scott vs Sanford
The Supreme Court's ruling was a provocative opinion. It stated flatly that Blacks had "no rights which the white man was bound to respect" and rejected the right of any territory to ban slavery within its own borders -
Election of Abraham
When Abraham was elected, southerners were angry with the decision because Lincoln was going to be the president that would end slavery and the south disagreed.
