Causes to the Civil War

  • missouri compromise

    missouri compromise
    This started to Divide the anti-slaves and the pro-slaves to separate and balance between the two.It started with Missouri and Maine to say which one was slave and and which was the non slave.Then there was a bill passed which caused both to be free states
  • The Abolition Movement

    The Abolition Movement
    It became a movement to end slavery which started in 1830 and ended around 1860. Also they wanted to stop trading slaves and end slavery in the south.
  • Division Of the political parties

    Division Of the political parties
    The political parties divided into two parties. One was the free soil party which was a opposed to slavery. Then the other was Whig party which People of the society or the territory decided on the decisions.
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    The compromise of 1850 was to establish a resolution between the north and the south,where the northern was anti-slavery and the southern was pro-slavery.It lead to the civil war by the slavery compromise failed which lead to war
  • Bloody Kansas

    Bloody Kansas
    Bloody Kansas or the Border War was a of violent political fight with the United States involving anti-slavery and pro-slavery. It was between 1854 and 1861,
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act
    The act was to separate the Kansas state and the Nebraska state. Which caused the bleeding kansas where the pro-slavery and the anti-slavery meet. Also they wanted to build railroads to connect the us with the west coast
  • Dred Scott Decision

    Dred Scott Decision
    After dred scotts master died he thought that since his master took him from a free state that he should be free. Which wasn't the case he tried to go to court and become free but he was called property and not human so they told him he shouldn't have came in the first place
  • Election of Abraham Lincoln & Secession of Southern States

    Election of Abraham Lincoln & Secession of Southern States
    There were 4 men that were elected. Aberham Lincoln,John Bell, stephen douglas,John C. Breckinridge.An impact was that Congress was not able to pass a bill that protected slavery.The result of the election was Lincoln was able to win
  • Lincoln war time measures

    Lincoln war time measures
    The first detail is the martial law which Lincoln didn't want slave holding border states to join Confederacy.Then there was the Suspension of Haber Corpus which allowed states to use conscription.Lastly the Emancipation Proclamation which the republican wanted to end slavery
  • Gettysburg Adress

    Gettysburg Adress
    The leader General Lee of theThe southern tried to invade the north and try to capture a piece of the north and think that the north will become peace. The place where the battle happend was in PA