Causes of the Civil War
by Naomi Ichiriu
1. Dred Scott v. Sanford
1.1. Polarization intensified
2. rising tensions between North and South
3. lincoln becomes president
4. southern states start to seceed
5. disagreement about state's rights
6. immigrants from Europe going to North
7. Slavery
8. Slavery was brought to the Colonies
8.1. Georgia banned slavery for a short amount of time
9. Revolution
9.1. first concerted protests arose: against the continued importation of slaves and then against slavery itself
10. northern states started to pass emancipation laws
10.1. south was more committed to slavery
10.2. north was not
11. Missouri Compromise
12. growing disagreement about slavery
13. Nat Turner’s Rebellion
13.1. virginia: rolled back few rights blacks had
14. The Wilmot Proviso
15. Mexican-American War
16. Compromise of 1850
16.1. Strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act
17. The Liberator began to print
17.1. made more people abolitionists
18. collapse of Whig Party
18.1. led to rise of Republican Party
19. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
19.1. Northerners: eyes have been opened to horrors of slavery
19.2. Southerners: Stowe’s book was slanderous
20. Brought issue of slavery to those who remained neutral
21. Transcontinental railroad
22. Kansas-Nebraska Act
22.1. Slavery became dividing factor that could not be ignored
23. Kansas and Nebraska were both above the line, but they became slave states
24. Bleeding Kansas
25. Lecompton Constition
26. abolitionist movement
27. economical differences
28. civil war
29. 3/5ths Compromise
