Causes of the Civil War by Preston Vesperman

Slavery

vespepre — 2025-04-15 16:44:56 UTC

Slavery was one of the causes of the Civil war, because the south wanted slavery to expand to the west, but the north wanted slavery to be abolished.

Abraham Lincoln

vespepre — 2025-04-15 16:50:48 UTC

Abraham Lincoln getting elected was another cause of the Civil war by trying to abolish slavery in the U.S.

John Brown's raid

vespepre — 2025-04-15 16:55:05 UTC

His raid on the Harper's Ferry was viewed by the southerns as a direct attack on their way of life.

Dred Scott vs. Sanford

vespepre — 2025-04-16 16:36:25 UTC

The Dred Scott case deepened existing sectional tensions and ultimately contributed to the Civil War by invalidating the Missouri Compromise and denying citizenship to Black people.

Fugitive slave act

vespepre — 2025-04-16 16:39:29 UTC

The Fugitive slave act of 1850 fueled the Civil War by intensifying sectional tensions and radicalizing abolitionists, particularly in the North.

Bill of Rights

vespepre — 2025-04-16 16:42:28 UTC

The Bill of Rights, by explicitly protecting individual liberties, influenced the understanding of states' rights and the limits of federal power, ultimately contributing to the tensions that erupted in the Civil War.

Kansas and Nebraska act

vespepre — 2025-04-16 16:51:22 UTC

It repealed the Missouri Compromise, which had prohibited slavery in territories North of a specific latitude, and introduced the concept of popular sovereignty, and introduced the concept of popular sovereignty, allowing residents of Kansas and Nebraska to decide on the issue of slavery themselves.

Compromise of 1850

vespepre — 2025-04-16 16:55:52 UTC

It was exacerbating existing sectional divides and failing to provide a lasting solution.

Westward expansion

vespepre — 2025-04-16 16:59:28 UTC

It caused the Civil War by raising the question of whether new territories would be free or slave states.

Economic differences.

vespepre — 2025-04-17 14:05:35 UTC

The North's growing industrial economy and reliance on wage labor contrasted sharply with the South's agricultural economy, heavily reliant on slavery for labor.

Bleeding Kansas

vespepre — 2025-04-17 14:11:39 UTC

The Bleeding Kansas was the effort of Southern interests to undermine the Missouri Compromise of 1820 under which Kansas should have been a Free State.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

vespepre — 2025-04-17 14:14:00 UTC

It intensified existing tensions over slavery and the broader issue of state's rights.

Sectionalism

vespepre — 2025-04-17 14:15:19 UTC

Sectionalism, characterized by strong regional identities and allegiances, fueled the Civil War by exacerbating tensions between the North and South, particularly over slavery.