Causes of the Civil War

Causes of the Civil War par 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