Bleeding Kansas is a term used to describe the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory. The period of violence in 1854 is called‚ "The Bleeding Kansas". The Missouri Compromise was overturned and became the "Kansas-Nebraska Act. This new act would let the residents decide whether the area would become a slave state or a free state. Of all the Union States Kansas suffered the most casualties because of the issues of slavery being divided. Free-state settlers and proslavery
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wanted the new territories to be free. Some people thought the new territories should have the right to vote whether they wanted to be free or slave. This is called State’s Rights. An agreement was reached called the Compromise of 1850‚ which lasted for three years. In this compromise‚ fugitive slaves were ordered to return to their owners. The abolitionists thought that they shouldn’t have to follow that law. Next‚ Abraham Lincoln said that slavery should be abolished. He was elected
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Kansas-Nebraska Act c) The Compromise of 1850 d) The Underground Railroad A. 1852 B. 1854 C. 1850 D. 1831 A. The effect of Uncle Tom’s Cabin gave people a look at the lives of slaves and made it personal to the reader. Giving the North a greater sense of opposition to Slavery. B. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was put into place to allow the two territories to decide for themselves whether or not they would allow slavery. This led to Kansas being a free state. C. The Compromise of 1850 was 5 laws passed
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Southern independence as a new confederation of states under its own constitution. In the late 18th century‚ the abolitionist movement began in the north and the country began to divide over the issue between north and south. In 1820‚ the Missouri Compromise banned slavery in all new western territories‚ which southern states saw as a threat to the institution of slavery itself. With the election in 1860 of Abraham Lincoln‚ who ran on a position of anti-slavery‚ the south felt that slavery was sure
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Europe came to the North and fueled the labor supply. The large amounts of money to be made in cotton had important effects on the South. By the 1830s‚ cotton was the major cash crop in Alabama‚ Mississippi‚ Louisiana‚ Georgia‚ and Texas. By the 1850s‚ cotton was king in the South. The southern cotton crops were important to the entire nation. This was only possible through slave labor. The textile industry in the New England states developed rapidly because the South could supply it with more cotton
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The latest fugitive slave law was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. The Act was part of the larger Compromise of 1850‚ a series of bills meant to resolve issues over slavery in territories acquired during the Mexican-American War. The Fugitive Slave Act was aimed at uncooperative Northerners‚ but applied to all citizens. It required federal
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was named the Missouri Compromise. It all began with the disagreement between pro-slavery and anti-slavery. The breaking point happened in 1819‚ when Missouri requested to be a slaved state. It was such a big deal‚ because there were twenty-two states‚ which were evenly split into eleven slave states and eleven free states. Hence why there was so much tension on Missouri being a slave state‚ because it would throw off the balance. Congress then coordinated a two-part compromise‚ letting Missouri become
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What events led to the Civil War? During the Revolutionary Era from 1765-1815‚ slavery existed in thirteen colonies. Maryland went from white servants to slaves. There was an agricultural economy that existed in the South that was dependent on the labor of slaves. Although slavery did not exist in the North exclusively; New York‚ Philadelphia‚ and New England were involved in the trade of slaves; so although the South was exclusively using slaves as an economic gain‚ the North also had financial
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Constitution if it allowed slavery to continue. Although it was never determined‚ the people‚ particularly Southerners‚ took it upon themselves to assume that since it was unclear‚ they were to decide the fate of slavery with popular sovereignty. The Compromise of 1850 broke apart the Nebraska and Kansas territory into two separate territories. The Kansas territory was
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The Causes of the Civil War Through the antebellum period‚ The United States was not at war‚ but tensions continued to dominate the country. The north and the south relentlessly pressured each other over the issue of slavery. In 1860‚ South Carolina succeeded from the United states and the Civil War had begun. Although states right indirectly led to the succession of the Confederate States of America‚ slavery was the largest cause of the war as it was the greatest contributor to sectionalism‚ followed
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