Causes of the Civil War by Paige Seippel

New land Renews Slavery Disputes

seipppai — 2024-04-22 16:52:56 UTC

The Unites states added more than 500,000 square miles of land that won the Mexican War.

Compromise of 1850

seipppai — 2024-04-22 16:55:09 UTC

It was a compromise that Henry Clay made for slavery and helped the Missouri crisis.

Fugitive Slave Act

seipppai — 2024-04-22 16:58:39 UTC

Was a law that slaves cant run away and can be caught in free areas and bring them back to there owners.

Antislavery Literature

seipppai — 2024-04-23 16:45:44 UTC

They used a story to gain sympathy for their cause for using them for slaves.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

seipppai — 2024-04-23 16:52:16 UTC

The act repealed the Missouri Compromise and created two new territories.

Bleeding Kansas

seipppai — 2024-04-23 16:57:32 UTC

A violent civil confrontation in to Kansas and in to Missouri.

Election of 1852

seipppai — 2024-04-24 13:18:59 UTC

Democrat Franklin Pierce defeated Whig Winfield Scott in the 1852 presidential election.

Political Parties Undergo Change

seipppai — 2024-04-24 13:22:52 UTC

They said the Nebraska Act would not help. It brought slave problem back in to spot light.

Dred Scott Decision

seipppai — 2024-04-24 13:27:38 UTC

They had a court decision to make for Dred Scott that was enslaved. He sued for freedom and protest for being enslaved.

Raid on Harpers Ferry

seipppai — 2024-04-24 13:31:33 UTC

John Brown was trying to start a war. They would only kill Black people and if white people tried to stop them they would hold them hostage. It only went on for two years with only 20 men left.

The South Secedes

seipppai — 2024-04-24 13:34:45 UTC

Lincoln said he would not change slavery in the south because they said they needed to much to give up.

Election of 1860

seipppai — 2024-04-24 13:39:06 UTC

The Northern and Southern did not want either of the people running for president. Abraham Lincoln won and was trying to stop slavery.

Toward a Union Victory

seipppai — 2024-04-24 13:55:07 UTC

Slavery got band after we won and put a law that all people should be treated equal.