At this time, slaves were not paid for the work that they did and were still treated as people of a much lower class. This was the beginning of the reason for the eventual Civil War.

This document did not mention slavery being either illegal or legal, which caused further disagreement between the North and the South.

In the end, he was caught by the soldiers. He was later hanged and skinned on November 11th in Jerusalem, Virginia. This punishment spread fear in Virginia which spread to the rest of the South. This fear was what caused conflict, which eventually built up to cause the Civil War.

The Compromise admitted California as a free state, allowed Utah and New Mexico to choose for themselves whether to become a slave state or free state, and abolished it. slave trade in Washington D.C. Most importantly, it passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Both the Northerners and Southerners were upset about the compromise because it allowed states to choose whether to belong to a slave state or a free state, creating fears of losing sides every time a new state joined. The Compromise was successful in the beginning, but it was very temporary. As time went by, citizens were getting divided and the nation was splitting apart.

The Compromise of 1850 failed to keep a balance between slave states and free states. Therefore, it can be said that the Compromise of 1850 was one of the main factors that failed to settle the tension between the North and the South and led to the Civil War.

This act further led to an uprising called the Bleeding Kansas and caused greater divisions between the North and the South which eventually caused the Civil War.

In April 1846, Dred and Harriet filed lawsuits for freedom. They stated that any person who was taken to a free territory became free. Dred and Harriet had lived in a free state, they must have been freed. Although they lost in the first trial, in the second trial in January 1850, they won their freedom.

However, in 1852, Irene appealed the case and made Dred Scott and his family became enslaved again. After that, Scott tried countless times to fight for his freedom but lost every time. Irene had soon married her second husband, Chaffee who was a congressman and abolitionist. He was mad at how his wife didn't free Dred Scott, the most infamous slave of all time. Therefore, he sold Scott to Taylor Bow. In 1857, on May 26, Taylor Bow freed Scott and his family. Unfortunately, Scott died the year after he was freed. The Dred Scott Decision outraged the abolitionists and grew a further divide between the North and the South.

He pleaded with the South: "In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being the yourselves the aggressors....... We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection."

His appeal favored many Northerners but the Southerners did not favor him by the fact that he was trying to abolish slavery. This later led to the fear of the South which led them to secede from the Union and later lead to the Civil War.

In response to the notice, Lincoln sent unarmed troops just to bring over supplies. However, before the unarmed reached them, the Confederates opened fire on April 12, 1861. Fighting broke out between the two sides, and the Union eventually surrendered on April 4th. Despite the heavy bombardment, no one died. But this action marked the start of the Civil War which lasted in many deaths and losses of life.

In 1793, the First Fugitive Slave Act was enforced but the South demanded even more effective enforcement which allowed Congress to pass out the Second Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Punishments were given to those who refused to enforce the law and those who helped slaves to escape.

Due to this, the dispute between the North and South became even more severe which caused the split between the North and South.

The widely presumed "first event" of Bleeding Kansas was the Sack of Lawrence, which is when a pro-slavery group raided the town of Lawrence and caused massive havoc. This attack reached the U.S. Senate when Charles Sumner was beaten with a cane by U.S. Representative Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina. This violence deepened the divide on slavery between the North and South.

This decision happened after the attack on Fort Sumter, which the Confederate States won. This win encouraged some other states, which were unsure of whether or not to join to make their decision. Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee were the four states, which seceded after the battle.

This succession caused there to be two opposing sides, the Confederate (pro-slavery) and the Union (anti-slavery). These two opposing sides fought against each other and thus was the beginning of the Civil War.

Douglass didn't support Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, because it eventually started the Civil War. During it, he met with President Abraham Lincoln to help improve the living conditions for African American soldiers. He worked tirelessly to promote abolitionism and wanted one of the outcomes of the war to emancipate the slaves.

The Slave Trade Act of 1794 forbade the transportation of slaves outside of the United States. The South liked this act because it allowed them to keep their slaves, however, the North didn't like it. This caused a further divide between the two parts of the United States.

Through his sacrifice for his support for abolitionism, he gave hope to people to continue to fight for their ideas. Not only that, but this led to anger in the North which eventually divided the North and the South and led to the Civil War.

When the war started, lots of people from both sides joined the army. Approximately, 25,000 Mexican soldiers died in this war and 15,000 American soldiers died. People in the North and South had hard times because their homes and lives were affected by the war. Also, kids feel scared and they need to leave their homes. They had shortage of foods and some children lost their parents.

The Mexican-American War caused a big fight between the North and the South about whether to allow slavery in new territories. This disagreement made even greater dispute which was another factor that caused the Civil War.

The gold rush, which made California state, was what also caused a problem. It enrolled to become a state in 1848 but had to wait until 1850. It was the only state admitted since it joined the Union as a free state. It had to wait until another slave state decided to join the Union to maintain a balance in the Congress which was proposed through the Compromise of 1850. People of the South and North disagreed with this decision, and further division was created.

Lincoln and Douglas argued about slavery. These debates made people in the North to be against slavery. This was another factor that caused the separation of the North and South which later led to the Civil War.

The Constitutional Convention created the Constitution, which was a pro-slavery document. It proclaimed slaves as 3/5 of a person when deciding voting rights. However, others believe it was anti-slavery because its language did not specifically accept slavery.

In later years, the South cited the Constitution to back up their opinion on slavery (for it). The Constitution caused a lot of controversy because its words weren't anti-slavery or pro-slavery. This further creates a divide between the two groups.

The Pottawatomie Massacre created fear and the will of revenge within the North and South. This event was another important contribution to the start of the Civil War.

The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions did not directly address slavery, but they did contribute to the tension that was built over the years before the Civil War. Since these documents were later used to defend slavery and work to make it legal, it was an important role in history.