Causes of the Civil War by Ashton Sisley

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

sisleash — 2024-04-23 13:31:24 UTC

Repealed the Missouri Compromise, created two new territories, and allowed for popular sovereignty.

Election of 1852

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This election helped contribute to the Antislavery Act.

Antislavery Literature

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Antislavery Literature represents the origins of multicultural Literature in the United States.

Dred Scott Decision

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A runaway slave the sued for his freedom, but was denied so he had to go back to he south.

Lincoln- Douglass Debates

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The Lincoln Douglass debate was a debate between Abraham Lincoln and Steven A.

Raid on Harper's Ferry

sisleash — 2024-04-23 13:55:32 UTC

John Browns revolt on the Harper's ferry was to free the slaves , and give them resources to rebel, and install fear in Southerns.

Political Parties Undergo Change

sisleash — 2024-04-23 13:59:04 UTC

Some groups of people who used to vote for one party vote for the other one.Sometimes, political parties end and new ones begin. Party realignments can happen because of important events in history or because of changes in the kinds in peoples country.

Popular sovereignty

sisleash — 2024-04-23 14:03:04 UTC

The idea that political power belongs to the peoples, who should decide on banning or allowing slavery.

Free-Soil Party

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Which supported the Wilmot Proviso. They worried that slave labor would mean fewer jobs for white workers.

Fugitive Slave Act

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Fugitive Slave Act made it a crime to help runaway slaves and allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas.

Bleeding Kansas

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Three distinct political groups occupied Kansas: pro-slavery, Free-Staters and abolitionists. Violence broke out immediately between these opposing factions and continued until 1861 when Kansas entered the Union as a free state on January 29. This era became forever known as Bleeding Kansas.

Election of 1860

sisleash — 2024-04-23 14:17:24 UTC

In a four-way contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin won a national popular plurality, a popular majority in the North where states already had abolished slavery, and a national electoral majority comprising only Northern electoral votes.

The South Secedes

sisleash — 2024-04-23 14:20:46 UTC

Abraham Lincoln said instead of changing slavery he just made it unable to expand so it would be gone eventually.