The Civil War

  • Economic and social differences between the North and the South

    he northern and southern parts of the United States developed along different lines. The South remained a predominatly argrarian economy while the North became more and more industrialixed. different social cultures and political beliefs developed.
  • state v.s. federal rights

  • the fight between the slave and nonslave state proponents

    the northern and southern parts of the United States developed along different lines. The South remained a predominatly argrarian economy while the North became more and more industrialixed. different social cultures and political beliefs developed.
  • the growth of the abolishionists movement

    by the early 30's those who wished to see the instition abolished with the United States were becoming more stribent and influential. They claimed obedience to "higher law" over obedience to the Constitution's gaurantee that a fugitive from one state would be considered a slave in all states.
  • A steady flow of immagrants from ireland and germany during the potatoe famine ensured the north with a pool of laborers many whome could be hired for minimum wage

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

    An Anti- Slavery novel published . within 2 years it became a nation and world wide best seller.
  • The Dread Scott Decision

    dread scott was a slave who sought citinzenship thruogh the American legal system,and whose case eventually ended up in the supreme court.
  • Brown and a band of followers siezed the federal arsenal at Harper's ferry.

  • the election fo Abraham Lincoln

  • Knowing that resupplies were on their way from the North to the federal garrision at Fort Sutmer in the harbor of Charelston, South Carolinea provisional confederate forces demanded the fort's surrender.

  • i got this info from www.historynet.com