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Missouri compromise 1820
Missouri was added as a slave state and Maine was added as a free state, creating a balance. A line was drawn 36°30°. It was a way to balance slave states and free states, this lead to civil war due to sectionalsim and cutting the u.s in two pieces. -
Treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo
Over 500,000 square miles were put into slave states and the free states were scared the slave states are going to start taking over all of their land. -
The Fugitive Slave Act
Punished people who harbored runaways with both civil penalties and criminal penalties including a 6 month imprisonment if prosecuted successfully. South complained that northern state laws interfered with the federal system. The north did this to protect the black people of being unfairly accused of being runaways. Ultimately the fugitive crisis is one of the major causes of the coming of the civil war. -
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What helped start civil war
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Compromise of 1850
Resolution to seek compromise and avoid any conflict between North and south. Slave trade was abolished in Washington D.C. -
Abolitionist movement
Risky and radical attempts to abolish slavery were attempted, can be technically considered a threat. -
Dred Scott vs Sanford
This is the attempt for African American men to become free, trials in the court to get freedom for black men who are born in America. The South didn't like this idea because that is most all of the slaves doing work for them at the moment. -
Lincoln and Douglas, debates
Fight and debates for presidency, debates on spacer and if it should still happen or not. -
John Brown and Nat Turner raid
This led to the anger of the southern government because they felt they were under fire and being forced to be non slave, so it started a debate in the government's between south and north. -
John Brown's Raid
The raid of Harper's Ferry was a raid on a weapons armory in VA by John Brown to try and start a slave revolt. Brown took some hostages and persuaded black slaves to rise up and fight back with him. The revolt was quickly put down because no large amounts of slaves rose up. This was a cause of the civil war because it showed that North would resort to violence to end slavery, scared the South into wanting to secede, and the South also began to militarize in case of further attacks by the North. -
Election of Abraham Lincoln
Republican, against slavery, which scared the slave states into trying to seceed and originally the real start of the civil war.
