Causes of the Civil War

Maine entered as a free state

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Dred Scott Decision (Dred Scott v Sandford)

California entered as a free state

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Dred Scott Decision (Dred Scott v Sandford)

Banned slavery above the 36°30'N of the Louisiana Territory

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Dred Scott Decision (Dred Scott v Sandford)

Gave popular sovereignty to the Utah and New Mexico territories

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Dred Scott Decision (Dred Scott v Sandford)

Slave trade was banned in Washington, DC

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Dred Scott Decision (Dred Scott v Sandford)

Stated that slaves were property

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Dred Scott Decision (Dred Scott v Sandford)

Contradicted (went against) the Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Dred Scott Decision (Dred Scott v Sandford)

Stated that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional because it had banned slavery without due process of law

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Dred Scott Decision (Dred Scott v Sandford)

New, stricter Fugitive Slave Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Dred Scott Decision (Dred Scott v Sandford)

Missouri became a slave state

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Dred Scott Decision (Dred Scott v Sandford)