Causes of the Civil War

1. Election of Zachary Taylor

1.1. 1848

2. The Compromise of 1850

2.1. 1850

3. The Fugitive Slave Act

3.1. 1850

4. Uncle Tom's Cabin

4.1. 1852

5. The Kansas-Nebraska Act

5.1. 1854

6. ''Bleeding Kansas''

6.1. 1855

7. Bloodshed in the Senate (Senator Charles Sumner Attacked

7.1. 1851

8. Republican Party

8.1. 1854

9. The Election of 1856

9.1. 1856

10. Dred Scott V. Sanford Case

10.1. 1857

11. The Lincoln and Douglas Debates

11.1. 1858

12. John Brown Attacks Harper's Ferry

12.1. 1859

13. Political Parties Divide

13.1. 1860

14. The Election of 1860

14.1. 1860

15. Southern States Secede

15.1. 1860

16. The Confederate States of America

16.1. 1861

17. Crittenden Plan (not in book

17.1. 1861

18. Missouri Compromise

18.1. 1860

19. Wilmot Proviso

19.1. 1848

20. Free-soil party

20.1. 1848