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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)
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
South Secedes 1860 – Why?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roNmeOOJCDY