Causes of the Civil War

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  1. 2. admitted missouri as a slave state and maine as a non-slave state, keeping the number of slave and free states equal. At 36-30 line, slavery was permitted below the line and would not be permitted above the line
  2. 3. greater loyalty to your own section rather than the country as a whole.
  3. 4. required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves.
  4. 6. Kansas The first fighting over the slavery issue took place in Kansas. In 1854, the government passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act allowing the residents of Kansas to vote on whether they would be a slave state or a free state. The region was flooded with supporters from both sides. They fought over the issue for years. Several people were killed in small skirmishes giving the confrontation the name Bleeding Kansas. Eventually Kansas entered the Union as a free state in 1861.
  5. 9. As the United States continued to expand westward, each new state added to the country shifted the power between the North and the South. Southern states began to fear they would lose so much power that they would lose all their rights. Each new state became a battleground between the two sides for power.
  6. 10. willnot provise, suggested all lands from mexico cession had no slaves. California free state, fugitive slave law, texas border established, no slave trade in W.DC, Nm and UT could vote.
  7. 11. northern abolitionist, launched a slave revolt in 1859 he seized weapons from harpers ferry, virginia. Uprising was quickly crushed, brown was tired and executed.
  8. 14. When Lincoln was elected, many of the southern states decided they no longer wanted to be a part of the United States. They felt that they had every right to leave. Starting with South Carolina, eleven states would eventually leave the United States and form a new country called the Confederate States of America. Abraham Lincoln said they did not have the right to leave the United States and sent in troops to force the Southern states to rejoin the Union. The Civil War had begun.
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  1. 1. The final straw for the South was election of Abraham Lincoln to President of the United States. Abraham Lincoln was a member of the new anti-slavery Republican Party. He managed to get elected without even being on the ballot in ten of the southern states. The southern states felt that Lincoln was against slavery and also against the South.
  2. 5. he sued his master for his freedom. The supreme court ruled slaves were not legal citizens and could not bring court cases before the supreme court. They said the declaration of independence did not apply to slavery.
  3. 7. Abraham Licoln became the 16th president campaigning on a platform opposing the spread of slavery.
  4. 8. condition in which one human being was owned by another. A slave was considered by law as property, or chattel,and was deprived of most of the rights ordinarily held by free persons.
  5. 12. The idea of states' rights was not new to the Civil War. Since the Constitution was first written there had been arguments about how much power the states should have versus how much power the federal government should have. The southern states felt that the federal government was taking away their rights and powers.
  6. 13. In the mid-1800s, the economies of many northern states had moved away from farming to industry. A lot of people in the North worked and lived in large cities like New York, Philadelphia, and Boston. The southern states, however, had maintained a large farming economy and this economy was based on slave labor. While the North no longer needed slaves, the South relied heavily upon slaves for their way of life.