Civil war

Causes Of The Civil War

By Duran Vaughn
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    Causes Of The Civil War

  • Missouri Compromise Of 1820

    Missouri Compromise Of 1820
    ~Missouri Compromise Was Formed When The North And South Were About To Fight.
    ~A Man Named Henery Clay, (AKA Great Compromiser) Stopped The Fight, And Brought Up The Missouri Compromise Which Would Maintain Balance Between Slave And Free.

  • The Nullification Crisis

    The Nullification Crisis
    ~Some Southern States Thought Of The Tariff Of 1828 (AKA Tariff Of Abomination) Was Unfair, And Only Beneficial To Northerners.
    ~The Vice President, John C. Calhoun, Believed South Carolina Was Allowed To Nullify The Tariffs.
    ~Because The Federal Goverment Said South Carolina Could Not Nullify The Tariff, South Carolina Threatened To Secede.
    ~Fortunstely, Henery Clay Stepped In And Made A Compromise Lowering The Tariff.

  • Compromise Of 1850

    Compromise Of 1850
    ~From September 9 To September 20
    ~Compromise Deciding Wether Or Not States From Mexico Would Be Free Or Slave.
    ~California would Become Free, While The Other Territories From Mexico would Be Slave

  • Fugitive Slave Act Of 1850

    Fugitive Slave Act Of 1850
    ~An Act Passed In 1850 Allowing Slave Owners To Go Up North And Take Back Their Runaway Slave.
    ~This Greatly Increased Tensions Between The North And South.

  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas
    ~From 1854 To 1861
    ~About 5000 Pro-Slavery People From Missouri Moved Into Kansas.
    ~Because Of The Pro-Slavery People, Kansas Became A Slave State.
    ~In Kansas, The Anti-Slavery People Formed Their Own Goverment, But Were Soon Attacked By Pro-Slavery People.
    ~Abolitionist John Brown, Was Outraged By This, And He Killed Some Of His Pro-Slavery Neighbours.

  • Dred Scott Decision

    Dred Scott Decision
    ~A Decision Made By The Supreme Court Stating That All Blacks, Free Or Not, Could Never Become A Citizen Of The US.
    ~This Court Also Decided That The Missouri Compromise Was Unconsitutional.
    ~Also, Slavery Was Allowed In All Territories, Free Or Slave.

  • Attack On Harper's Ferry

    Attack On Harper's Ferry
    ~From October 16 To The 18.
    ~John Brown, An Abolitionist, Tried To Rally Slaves To Fight Back.
    ~Before The Raid, John Brown Tried To Get Harriet Tubman, And Fredrick Douglass To Come, But They Couldn't.
    ~Attack On Harper's Ferry (AKA John Brown's Raid) Was An Attack To Gain Weapons For Slaves so They Could Revolt.
    ~The Attack Ultimately Ended In A Failure Because None Of The Slaves Followed.

  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860
    ~Abraham Lincoln Wins The Election, Beating John C. Brekinridge, John Bell, And Stephen A. Douglas.
    ~When Lincoln Became President, the Southern States Secede, Causing The Civil War To Begin.