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Abolitionist Movement
The goal of the abolitionist movement was the immediate emancipation of all slaves and the end of racial discrimination and segregation. The Abolitionist movement was lead by anti-slavery supporters and their goal was to give freedom and rights to the slaves. This lead to sectionalism early on because immediately people were going to disagree and that would be the pro-slavery supporters. -
Popular Sovereignty
Popular sovereignty, or the sovereignty of the people's rule, is part of the seven principle, that the authority of a state and its government is created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives (Rule by the People), who are the source of all political power. This lead to the civil war because the people are beginning to have power rather than the government and they do not like that. -
Harriet Tubman and The Underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was formed in the early 19th century and reached its height between 1850 and 1860. Fugitive slaves used the Underground Railway to escape slavery and travel away to free states. It is believed that around 100,000 slaves between 1810 and 1860 escaped using the network. This lead to Civil War resulting conflicts because when the anti-slavery supporters discovered Tubmans railroad, they were immediately enraged and obviously did not agree. -
Compromise of 1850
Senator Henry Clay proposed a bill to make California a free state and introduce the abolition of slave trade, but not slavery itself in the District of Colombia. This made fugitive slave law new and more effective. This caused the civil war because it prevented the territorial expansion of slavery. -
Fugitive Act
The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. This could’ve caused the Civil War because this slave act because much like the compromise act, it caused sectionalism between the north and south. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas agreed to divide Nebraska into two separate territories making Nebraska and Kansas having Kansas as a slave state Nebraska as a free state. This caused sectional tension leading to the Civil War because Kansas with slavery would violate the Missouri compromise which had kept the union from falling apart for the last 34 years. -
Bleeding Kansas
A series of violent political problems because of conflicts between slave and anti-slave states. Bleeding Kansas can mainly be said to have led to the Civil War because it led to the establishment of the Republican Party. -
Dred Scott vs Sandford
Dred Scott was a slave in Missouri. From 1833 to 1843, he resided in Illinois (a free state) where slavery was forbidden. After returning to Missouri, Scott sued unsuccessfully in the Missouri courts for his freedom, claiming that his residence in free territory made him a free man. This lead to Civil War because Scotts case probably upset slave states and people who agree with slavery and it caused many disputes. -
John Browns Raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was an effort by armed abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. His goal was to destroy the institution of slavery. This lead to the Civil War because it caused conflict between the slave states and free states and conflict leads to war. -
Election of Abraham Lincoln
United States presidential election of 1860. United States presidential election of 1860, American presidential election held on Nov. 6, 1860, in which Republican Abraham Lincoln defeated Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, and Constitutional Union candidate John Bell. This lead to sectionalism and war resulting conflicts because having Lincoln elected would mean having a anti-slavery leader and that would change everything politically.
