Causes of The Civil War by Megan Wolf

Economic Policies and Practices

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The International Revenue Act eased inflation primarily by placing excise taxes in many luxury items such as tobacco and jewelry.

Cultural Values

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One of the values that caused the civil war was states rights.

Slavery

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A condition in which one human being was owned by another human.

Election Contest

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The presidential election of 1880 would be deciding point for the union.

States Federal Rights

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Laws interfering with the Souths right to keep slaves and keep them wherever they wished.

Abolitionism

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In the United States, it was the movement that sought to to end slavery in the country.

Nebraska Territory

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The present-day state Nebraska was still territory of the United States during the American Civil War.

American Colonization Society

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ACS was formed in 1817 to send African-Americans to Africa as an alternative to emancipation in the US.

Bleeding Kansas

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Three distinct political groups occupied Kansas: pro-slavery, Free-Staters and abolitionists.

Causes of the Civil War

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Abolitionism, Nebraska Territory, American Colonization Society, Bleeding Kansas, Causes of the Civil War, Militant Defence of Slavery, Missouri Compromise

Militant Defence of Slavery

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Defenders of Slavery argued that slavery had existed existed throughout history and was a natural state of mankind.

Missouri Compromise

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This legislation admitted Missouri as a state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time, as to not upset the balance between slave and free states in the nation.