Cause of the American civil war

1. Election of Zachary taylor

2. The compromise of 1850

3. The fugitive slave act

4. Uncle Tom cabin

5. The Kansas-Nebraska act

6. Bleeding kansas

7. Bloodshed in the senate (senator Charles summer attack)

7.1. 1859

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7.4. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was the leading abolitionist senator and made fiery speeches denouncing the pro slavery legislature in Kansas. In one of the speeches he singled out Andrew butler who was an elderly senator from South Carolina who was not presented when he gave his speech. a few days later his nephew, congressman Preston brooks marched into the senate chamber and beat Sumner with a heavy cane until he fell to the floor bloody and unconscious. Sumner never really recovered from his injuries

8. Republic Party

8.1. 1854

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9. Election of 1850

9.1. 1855

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9.4. Both pro and anti slavery settlers flooded to Kansas to try and win the majority. Thousands of people from Missouri entered Kansas in Mach of 1855 to vote illegally in the election of a territorial legislature. Kansas had 3,000 voters but almost 8,000 people voted. Of the 39 people elected, all but 3 supported slavery. Antislaveary settlers in the town of Lawrence. He returned the next month with 800 men and attacked the town. Three days later John brown an antislaveary settler from Connecticut let seven men to a proslavery settlement near pottawomie creek and murdered five proslavery men and boys. This started widespread fighting in Kansas

10. The Kansas Nebraska act

10.1. 1854

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10.4. Senator Stephen Douglas pushed through the act of 1854 which led the nation closer to war he wanted to see a railroad built from Illinois through the Nebraska territory to the pacific coast. He suggested creating two new territories the Kansas territory and the Nebraska territory. Both were above the Missouri compromise line and would become a free state which upset the southerners. To win southern support he suggested that the issue of slavery be resolved by popular sovereignty. This would undo the Missouri compromise

11. Uncle toms cabin

11.1. 1852

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11.4. Written by Harriet Stowe in 1852, it was a novel about kindly Uncle Tom an enslaved man who is abused by the cruel Simon legree the book became the bestseller in the north. It shocked thousands of people who had been unconcerned with slavery before reading the book the book caused people to view slavery as a human moral problem and not just a political issue white southerner were outrages

12. Fugitive slave act

12.1. 1850

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12.4. Allowed special government officials to arrest any person caused of being a runaway slave. Suspected had no right to a trial to prove that they had been falsely accused. All it took was a slave holder or any white witness to swear that the suspect was slave Holder' s property. The law also required northern citizens to help capture accused runaway if authorities requested assistance

13. The compromise of 1850

13.1. 1850

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13.4. Gold was found in California and thousands moved to the area. Soon the territory had enough people to be admitted as a state since it was above the Missouri compromise Lin people felt like it would be a free state. This angered the south and threatened to secede. The compromise was proposed by senator Henry clay of Kentucky in January, 1850. He hoped this compromise would end the debate over slavery forever. This proposal produced one of the greatest debates in political history. President taylor opposed the compromise but died and the new President Millard Fillmore supported it congress passed five series of bills in September , 1850. 1. California admitted to the union as a free state. 2. Slaves trade was banned in the nation capital. 3. Congress declared that it could not regulate the slave trade between slave states. 4. Popular sovereignty would be used to determined the issue of slavery in the rest of Mexican cession. 5 .the south received a new fugitive slave law

14. Election of Zachary taylor

14.1. 1848

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14.4. In the election of 1848, the controversy over the wilmot led to the development of the free soil party. Democrats nominated senator lewis cass of Michigan, the Whig nominated Zachary Taylor and free soil nominated former democratic President Martin van buren senator cass suggested that the people in each new territory should decide for themselves wether or not to allow slavery. Zachary Taylor , a hero of the Mexican American war won the election.

15. Free soil party

15.1. 1848

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15.4. The election of 1848, both the Whig party and Democratic Party hoped to win by not taking a stand on the issue of slavery. Anti slavery Whigs and Democratic joined forces to create a political party called the free soil party. It called from the territory gained in the Mexican American war to be " free soil", a place where slavery was banned

16. Wilmot proviso

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16.2. 1848

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16.4. Since the Missouri compromise didn't apply to the large territory gained from Mexico in 1848, representatives David Wilmot proviso of Pennsylvania proposed that congress ban slavery in all territory that might become part of the United States as a results of the Mexican American war. The proposal passed in the house but failed in the senate

17. The Missouri compromise

17.1. 1820

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17.4. As American began moving west the issue of whether or not slaves should be allowed in the new state forming out west became an issue the first state in which this became a issue was Maine. It addition to the United States threatened to upset the balance slave state and free state. In 1820, senator Henry clay persuaded congress to approve the Missouri compromise stated :1 Maine was admitted as a free state. 2. Missouri's southern border was free 4. Southern slave slave owner gained the right to pursue escape fugitives into free regions

18. North and south

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18.3. The north was industrial factories and paid workers. South was agricultural with large population and small farms slave labor was used in the south.

19. Missouri compromise

20. Wilmot proviso

21. Free soil party