Causes of the Civil War
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- Created on: 13-01-19 19:54
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- Causes of the Civil War
- Short Term
- Election of Lincoln
- War broke out in 1861, just a year after Lincoln came into office
- Southerners were unhappy with the appointment of what they saw as an abolitionist president and seceded
- Succession Crisis
- The secession crisis was when some slaves state left the Union to form the Confederate states.
- Election of Lincoln
- Long Term
- Divided Opinions over the Issue of Slavery
- Abolitionists believed all people should be equal and wanted slavery to be abolished
- Free-Soilers mainly didn't want slavery to spread to the west. Their beliefs were a kind of middle ground between abolitionists and apologists
- Apologists were in favour of slavery and believed that slavery was either a "positive good" or a "necessary evil"
- Issue of Movement West and Difficulties Compromising
- 1850 California Act
- The Fugitive Slave Act required that all citizens had to help recapture free slaves and that black people could be seized if claimed by a slave owner
- California was admitted as a state under the condition that the Fugitive Slave Act be enforced
- Northerners and Southerners were both unsatisfied with the compromise. Southerners didn't like that California was a free state and The Fugitive Slave Act went directly against the beliefs of Northerners
- 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act
- The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed both territories to vote on whether to be free or slave
- Border Ruffians illegally took part in the vote in Kansas leading to it being slave though most legally there were abolitionists
- Violence snowballed between the two sides because of the Ransacking of Lawrence and the Beating of Charles Sumner
- 1850 California Act
- Rise of the Republican Party
- "Free soil, Free labour, Free men"
- Founded in 1854 by 1860 they were in the white house
- The first all Northern party
- Divided Opinions over the Issue of Slavery
- Short Term
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