Causes for the Civil War

In 1854 - anti-slavery Whigs and Democrats, Free Soilers and reformers from the Northwest met and formed this party in order to keep slavery out of the territories

• Constitutional Union Party

• Northern Democrats

• Southern Democrats

• Republican

He and his followers (his sons and others) killed five men in the pro slavery settlement of Pottawatomie Creek.

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Brown

• Dred Scott

• John Bell

First state to secede from the Union

• South Carolina

• North Carolina

• Virginia

• Alabama

(1850) a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders, punishment up to 6 months in jail and a $1000 fine

• Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

• Popular Sovereignty

• Fugitive Slave Act

John Brown's scheme to invade the South with armed slaves, backed by sponsoring, northern abolitionists; seized the federal arsenal; Brown and remnants were caught by Robert E. Lee and the US Marines; Brown was hanged

• Harper's Ferry

• Dred Scott Case

• Bleeding Kansas

• Sectionalism

Supreme Court case which ruled that slaves are not citizens but are property, affirmed that property cannot be interfered with by Congress, slaves do not become free if they travel to free territories or states, fueled abolitionist movement, hailed as victory for the south

• Harper's Ferry

• Sectionalism

• Dred Scott

• Fugitive Slave Act

1854 - Introduced by Stephen A. Douglas created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Compromise of 1820

• Bleeding Kansas

Lincoln, the Republican candidate, won because the Democratic party in the South was split over slavery. As a result, the South no longer felt like it has a voice in politics and a number of states seceded from the Union. Zero people in the South voted for Lincoln.

• Popular Sovereignty

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Dred Scott Case

• Election of 1860

A black slave, had lived with his master for 5 years in Illinois and Wisconsin Territory. Backed by interested abolitionists, he sued for freedom on the basis of his long residence on free soil. The ruling on the case was that He was a black slave and not a citizen, so he had no rights.

• John Brown

• Dred Scott

• John Bell

• Robert E. Lee

Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation

• Sectionalism

• Popular Sovereignty

• Secession

• Abolition