Connect to Self: Some things that could create major dissagreements within this society could be problems with the laws in the nation or in the diffrent states. Another thing that could cause an out break is if two states next to each other do not agree on something.
Causes of the Civil War
political causes
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Social Causes
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Economic Causes
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Timeline progressing towards war
1820: The Missouri Compromise- Missouri requested to become its own state.
1828-1832: United States passd two tariffs so that the Northern manufacturers do not have competiton with European imports.
1846-1848: Mexican War- The United States bought lots of land in the Southwest (Mexican Cession).
1850: Compromise of 1850- Henry Clay wrote a plan to add California as a free state.
1852: Harriett Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
1854: Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854- both states would use popular sovereignty to vote for the slave state or not.
1856: "Bleeding Kansas" - small civil war between proslavery and antislavery settlers.
1860: Abraham Lincoln(republican president) was elected after running the platform.
1828-1832: United States passd two tariffs so that the Northern manufacturers do not have competiton with European imports.
1846-1848: Mexican War- The United States bought lots of land in the Southwest (Mexican Cession).
1850: Compromise of 1850- Henry Clay wrote a plan to add California as a free state.
1852: Harriett Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
1854: Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854- both states would use popular sovereignty to vote for the slave state or not.
1856: "Bleeding Kansas" - small civil war between proslavery and antislavery settlers.
1860: Abraham Lincoln(republican president) was elected after running the platform.
During 1860, I would been a republican, and abolish slavery. At the time, the people would think I'm out of my mind, untill they realize how bad slavery is. Although slaves were used for many diffrent things, the plantation owners or the farmers could have treated them better and paid them.