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The secession was the biggest event that I believe lead to the Civil war. This physically divided the nation into two parts. The south wanted to continue with the ideologies of slavery where as the north wanted to completely abolish it. 

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The movement that I believed pushed to the Civil War 

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The movement that I believed pushed to the Civil War 

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Angry with the newly elected President Lincoln, the south was fearful that they lost their support in the government. This lead to the secession of the south. Lead by South Carolina the south started to remove themselves from the U.S and started their own union. (Pg. 629)

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This was in retaliation to the fugitive slave act. Northerns didn't allow slaves to be imprisoned for running away, and guaranteed jury trials. (pg. 592) 

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Uncle Tom's Cabin is a best selling novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. It showed the reality of slavery and the twisted morals that it internalized. (pg. 595)

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This was a favorable condition to slaveholders. This law was designed to bring runaway slaves back, even if they were in free states. (pg. 591)

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Fugitive Slave Act (1850) Part Of Compromise

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Fugitive Slave Act (1850) Part Of Compromise

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John Brown was an abolitionist who studied the past slave revolts. He gained financial backing from the North to lead a revolt with the slaves and take the weaponry from Harpers Ferry West Virginia. (Pg. 623)

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Upset with the government the Southerns tore from the U.S government and formed their own union. After the inauguration of Lincoln, days later he received an urgent threat demanding he surrender or face an attack. Lincoln neither abandoned the fort nor reinforced this. Instead he shifted the pressure to the head of the Union. (Pg. 646.) 

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The popular sovereignty was a condition of the Compromise. People who lived in the territory, voted either pro-slavery for their state or against it. (pg. 584)

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Dred Scott, a slave, moved with his owner to a free state.Later they moved back. His owner died. Dred started the lawsuit for his freedom. Court denied (pg 620)

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The underground railroad was a way to escape slavery. Abolitionists hid slaves in secret tunnels, and false cupboards, providing shelter and sanction. (pg. 593)

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This law established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and gave the residents the choose to vote on whether or not they allowed slavery. (pg. 597)

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The compromise was made to satisfy the North and South's controversy between free and slave states. It satisfied both ideologies of the New America. (pg. 583)

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Freeport Doctrine was an idea expressed by Douglas, saying that a state who didn’t want slavery could just refuse to vote on the laws that supported it. This was in response to Lincoln’s question about the Dred Scott decision. (Pg. 618) 

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The Wilmot Proviso amendment meant that any new territory the United States gained, after the war with Mexico, would not be allowed to have slavery. (pg. 581)

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The debates between Lincoln and Douglas were 7 opened discussions, used to further enhance their political campaigns. Douglas and Lincoln both had very different speaking styles which allowed the people to choose who they wanted. (Pg. 622)

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Lincoln was the only “unknown” candidate. Since he had not been in office before there was nothing for people to get offended by his past decisions. Which helped lead him to his victory. Lincoln played his cards by ear, “shifting” his views for the majority vote. (Pg. 618)

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Bleeding Kansas was the name for the battleground of the proslavery and antislavery forces, before the civil war. (pg. 599)