Causes Leading to the Civil War

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Uncle Tom's Cabin
the best-selling, anti-slavery book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe; her book inspired abolitionists and angered people who were pro-slavery.
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John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown was an abolitionist who planned to raid the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry; the raid failed, he was caught, and then was executed. It increased tensions between pro-slavery forces and abolitionists.
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State's Rights
Southern states felt that they had the right to practice slavery in new states and leave the U.S. Northern states often passed anti-slavery laws, declined to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act.
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Fort Sumter
the first battle of the Civil War
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Differences in the North
higher population, industrialized, more urban (cities), most states had outlawed slavery
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Differences in the South
rural, lower population, economy based on slavery
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Missouri Compromise
passed in 1820 - set a geographic boundary for the expansion of slavery into the new territories that were added from the Louisiana Purchase. It tried to keep an equal balance of political power between free and slave states.
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Fugitive Slave Act
African Americans in the north, regardless of whether they escaped slavery or not, were kidnapped and sold down south. It increased tensions between the north and south. Many in the north defied the law.
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Dred Scott
Dred Scott was enslaved and he sued for his freedom in court. The Supreme Court ruled against him and said that Congress couldn't pass laws to stop the spread of slavery into the new states.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
This repealed the Missouri Compromise and settlers were allowed to decide if Kansas and Nebraska would become free or slave states. It ended up resulting in and is referred to as Bloody Kansas.
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Election of Abraham LincolnAbraham Lincoln was an abolitionist and several southern states threatened to leave if he was elected in 1860.Frederick Douglassabolitionist who escaped slavery; founded the North Star (an abolitionist newspaper); also worked for women's rightsCompromise of 1850brought California into the Union as a free state and permitted Utah and New Mexico to be slave territories; included the abolition of the slave trade in Washington DC and put in place the Fugitive Slave LawUS Constitutionmade compromises on the issue of slavery in regards to how to count them in terms of population and when to end the importation of slavesNat Turner's RebellionRebellion in which one slave led a group of slaves through Virginia in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow and kill planter families- resulted in harsh slave codes being passedUnderground Railroada system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in CanadaHarriet TubmanFormer slave who helped slaves escape on the Underground RailroadElection of 1860the democratic party split, Lincoln was elected presidentSouth CarolinaThe first state to succeed from the union after the election of Lincoln.

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