Causes of the Civil War 2020-21

What is "abolition"?

• the push for womens' suffrage

• the push for womens' rights

• the belief that slavery must end

• the belief that slaves are property

- Created the 36'30' Line

- Kept the balance of slave and free states in Congress

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

These compromises settled the issue of adding northern and southern states to the country:

• Dredd Scott v. Sanford case and Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act and Compromise of 1820

• Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1820

• Bleedng Kansas and Fugitive Slave Act

- Allowed the people to decide/vote if slavery would be allowed in their territories (Popular Sovereignty).

- Overturned the Missourie Compromise Line

• Fugitive Slave Law

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missourie Act

Conductor of the Underground Railroad:

• Harriet Tubman

• John Brown

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Dred Scott

Forced everyone, even Northerners, to turn-in runaway slaves.

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Bleeding Kansas

• Runaway Law

Pro-slavery people violently clashed with abolisionists in the Kansas territory:

• Kansas Civil War

• Bleeding Kansas

• Fugitive Kansas

• Missouri Compromise

Being loyal to only your region of the country:

• Pride

• Racism

• Nationalism

• Sectionalism

One long term cause of the Civil War was:

• economic and social differences between the North and South

• the differet types of agriculture in the North and South

• the firing on Fort Sumter

• the election of Robert E. Lee

He organized a mission to steal guns and give them to slaves for their rebellion:

• Harry Tubman

• John Brown

• Dred Scott

• Robert E. Lee