Causes of Civil War

These events established Lincoln as a prominent national figure and solidified his Republican Party's anti-slavery platform.

• Lincoln-Douglas debates

• Tariff of 1828

• Nat Turner's Rebellion

• Compromise of 1850

This case went to the U.S. Supreme Court, where the Court decided that the Missouri Compromise and other legislation limiting slavery were unconstitutional.

• Dred Scott vs Sanford

• Tariff of 1828

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

This event began as a disagreement over whether or not slavery should be allowed in Kansas.

• "Bleeding Kansas"

• Kansas Compromise

• Missouri Compromise

• We are not in Kansas anymore Dorothy

This compromise admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and admitted Maine as a free state. All states north of Louisiana Purchase would be free states and all states South a slave state.

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas Compromise

• Bleeding Kansas

• Tariff of 1832

This document repealed the Missouri compromise and helped to create the Republican party.

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Harpers Ferry

This compromise includes lands acquired from Mexico after the Mexican-American war, the admission of California to the Union and Fugitive Slave Act, and it ended the slave trade in Washington D.C.

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

Man who raided the town of Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859 in an attempt to arm slaves.

• Thomas Jefferson

• Abraham Lincoln

• Nat Turner

• John Brown

This was published in response to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, and within two years two million copies had been sold worldwide.

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Tariff of 1832

• The Giver

• Old Yeller

This was passed by Congress to protect American Industry by applying high tariffs on imported items.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Tariff of 1828

• Harper's Ferry

Which one of these was NOT a cause of the civil war?

• Slavery

• High Tariffs

• States Rights to choose

• Louisiana Purchase