AND THE NUMBER ONE CAUSE IS???
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1. SLAVERYALLOWED SINCE THE U.S. WAS A COLONY ALTHOUGH IT EXISTED
PRIMARILY IN THE SOUTH Why would slavery cause a war?
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2. MISSOURI COMPROMISETHE MISSOURI COMPROMISE
ALLOWED MISSOURI TO ENTER THE UNION AS A SLAVE STATE
WITH THE PROVISION THAT NO
MORE SLAVE STATES COULD
COME IN ABOVE THE
30* LATITUDE LINE.
MISSOURI COMPROMISE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE PAPERS
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THE ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT TOOK SHAPE IN 1833, WHEN WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON,
ARTHUR AND LEWIS TAPPAN, AND OTHERS FORMED THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY
SOCIETY IN PHILADELPHIA. THE GROUP ISSUED THIS
MANIFESTO ANNOUNCING THE REASONS FOR FORMATION OF
THE SOCIETY AND ENUMERATING ITS GOALS.
ABOLITIONISTS BELIEVED THAT SLAVERY WAS A NATIONAL SIN, AND THAT IT WAS THE MORAL
OBLIGATION OF EVERY AMERICAN TO HELP ERADICATE
IT FROM THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE BY FREEING ALL
SLAVES.
3. ABOLITIONISTS: OPPONENTS OF SLAVERY
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ABOLITIONISTS FACED HOSTILITY AND VIOLENCE IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE
ANTI SLAVERY MOVEMENTIN THE EARLY 1830S AMOS DRESSER, A
MINISTER IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, WAS ARRESTED AND
PUBLICLY WHIPPED BY A COMMITTEE OF
PROMINENT CITIZENS OF NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE FOR BEING A MEMBER
OF AN OHIO ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY, POSSESSING AND
DISSEMINATING ANTI-SLAVERY MATERIALS.
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4. COMPROMISE OF 1850THE U.S. GAINED NEW TERRITORY AFTER THE
WAR WITH MEXICO WHICH REIGNITED THE BATTLE OVER THE NUMBER OF
SLAVE AND FREE STATES. CALIFORNIA WAS
ALLOWED TO ENTER INTO THE UNION AS A FREE
STATE WHICH UPSET THE BALANCE OF FREE AND SLAVE STATES SINCE
THERE HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN AN EQUAL NUMBER
OF BOTH. IN EXCHANGE THE SOUTH GOT THE FUGITIVE SLAVE
ACT WHICH REQUIRED RUNAWAY SLAVES TO BE
RETURNED TO THEIR MASTERS IN THE SOUTH.
DRAWING OF THE MAJOR FIGURES INVOLVED WITH THE COMPROMISE OF 1850. THIS EVENT
DEMONSTRATED HOW CLOSE THE UNION WAS TO SEPARATION.
SCOTT
CLAY
CALHOUN
WEBSTER
FILLMORE
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5. KANSAS NEBRASKA ACT, 1854THIS ACT OVERTURNED THE SLAVERY RESTRICTIONS OF THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE
BY INTRODUCING THE CONCEPT OF POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY. THIS MEANT THAT TERRITORIES THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY RESTRICTED FROM SLAVERY COULD NOW VOTE
ON WHETHER OR NOT TO BE A SLAVE STATE.
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6. SCOTT v. SANFORD 1857
THIS SUPREME COURT DECISION STATED THAT BLACK PEOPLE, FREE OR SLAVE, COULD NOT BE CITIZENS OF THE U.S. THIS ANGERED ABOLITIONISTS, THOSE WORKING TO ABOLISH
SLAVERY.
DRED SCOTT, A SLAVE, HAD BEEN TAKEN BY
HIS MASTER DR. EMERSON, AN ARMY SURGEON, TO A FREE
STATE AND A FREE TERRITORY AND BACK TO MISSOURI, A SLAVE STATE. SCOTT AND HIS WIFE HARRIET SUED
SANFORD, THE EXECUTOR OF
EMERSON'S ESTATE, FOR THEIR FREEDOM
ON THE BASIS OF THEIR RESIDENCE ON FREE
SOIL.
JUSTICE TANEY DRED SCOTT
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7. JOHN BROWN’S RAID ON HARPERS FERRY
"If it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and
mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and most unjust enactments, I submit: so let it be done!" (Last speech to the
court at his trial, November 2, 1859)
JOHN BROWN ATTACKED THE FEDERAL ARSENAL AT HARPERS FERRY, VA WITH
THE INTENT OF STARTING A SLAVE REVOLT. HE AND HIS
FOLLOWERS WERE CAPTURED AND JOHN
BROWN WAS HANGED. THIS ENFLAMED THE SOUTH AND
WAS A DIRECT CAUSE OF THE CIVIL WAR.
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8. ELECTION OF 1860THE ELECTION OF REPUBLICAN
LINCOLN, WHO RAN ON THE PROMISE OF NO MORE SLAVE STATES,
PROMPTED SOUTHERNERS TO SECEDE FROM THE UNION AND FORM THEIR OWN NATION, THE CONFEDERATE
STATES OF AMERICA.
9. Confederate States form
• Jefferson Davis is President• Served a 6 year term• There gov. did not believe the negro was equal
to the white man.
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