Causes of the Civil WarTensions are Heating up in Congress

Missouri Compromise of1820

Non-Slave StatesMaine

Slave StatesMissouri Compromise Line36*, 30n

Note: Time of the “Good Feeling Era”, prohibited slavery above the MCL. It was known as >>> 1 free state AND 1 slave state

Compromise of 1850

1. Challenged the Compromise of 1820

2. California a FREE State

3. New Mexico & Utah an OPEN state

4. How did Congress Act to this?

Note: After the U.S.-Mexican War – should new lands be divided by the slave issue?Congress agreed to admit California, in exchange for the Fugitive Slave Law.

Fugitive Slave Act 1850It required any citizen to capture a runaway slave, and bring them back to their slave owner(Bounty-Hunters)

Harriet Beecher Stowe’sUncle Tom’s Cabin’s Impact

Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854

1. Kansas and Nebraska reside above the 36w, 30nWhich is ?2. Douglas’s proposal –Popular Sovereignty – people to decide

Bleeding Kansas 1854 – 1856What Happened?

Stephen Douglas (Illinois) introduced POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY Meaning the People would decideThis overturned the Compromise of 1820 & 1850

Dred Scott Decision 1857

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j3lKSs2ZoA

Significance: Chief Justice Roger Taney stated > Scott was a Non-citizen/property* A-14

Explain - Lincoln-Douglas Debates 1858

Note: Lincoln stated that African Americans were human beings w/right guaranteed by the DOI.Lincoln condemned the Dred Scott decision

Election of 1860 – What Happened?

South Secedes 1860 – Why?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roNmeOOJCDY

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