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The Missouri Comromise
The Missouri Comromise was used to try to create a permenant solution to slavery. -
The War with Mexico
This was a major factor that led to the Civil War because this was an attempt made by the south acquire more slave territories. This then became a controversy which ended in an angry north. -
Wilmont Proviso
David Wilmont proposed a law that all land aquired by Mexico is to be "free." This law never passed and then obviously angered the south resulting in more controversy. -
The New Fugitive Slave Act (pat of the Compromise of 1850)
The new Fugitive Slave Act horrified the north because of the requirements to capture run-away slaves and the fear of punishment to not enforce the law. This law also gave the run-away slave no trial by jury and instead gave the run-away slave an unfair one. This of course, outraged northern abolishonists across the country. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This book was essentially an inside look into slavery which changed and touched many people across the globe. The outcome of the novel highly angered the south and caused more tension. -
The Kansas Nebraska Act
This notioned popular sovereignty throughout the territories. This act also repealed the Missouri Compromise. Eventually the act divided the Whig party and the Democratic party which led to the creation of the Republican Party another year later. -
The Republican Party
The reason the Republican Party created conrtoversy in the nation was because their platform included the belief that slavery should be kept where it is and not allowed to expand. -
Breakdown of the two-party system
This breakdown caused a lack for north and south compromises. This eventually led to radical canidates in office as well. -
Bleeding Kansas
This was the result of popular sovereignty and the Kansas Nebraska Act. This led to a series of bloody murders across Kansas because both antislavery and proslavery settlers tried to gain control of the majority to decide the fate of slavery in Kansas. -
The Brooks and Sumner Incident
After Charles Sumner, a northern politician, had delivered a nasty speech about the uncle of Preston Brooks, a southern politician, that involved slavery, Preston mercilessly beat Sumner with a cane. This was especially important to the cause of the eventual war because this was our nations most respected leaders acting like children. -
Dred Scott Case
This case resulted in the lack of ability for Congress to restrict slavery, It also declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional and anraged northerners; however, it did bring in many northeners to the Republican Party. -
The House Divided Speech
This speech made by Lincoln preached that the north and south have to work together to have the nation be preserved, This was taken the wrong way by the south and caused fear that Lincoln would try to abolish slavery. -
The Slave Revolt at Harpers Ferry
The extreme abolishonist John Brown tried to start a revolt in Virginia which ended in probably the south's highest enragment of the causes leading to the war. -
The 1860 Election
The election just extended the battle over slavery to the presidential election. -
The Crittenden Compromise
The compromise wa the last effort to perserve peace by forbiding slavery north of the 36/30 line. In the end the north very much disliked this compromise with the south very happy. -
Fort Sumter
This was an attack on the Union fort in South Carolina made by the south. Although no one was killed; this was the last straw for both sides.
