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Directions: Using the text and the workbook, read about each issue/ event. Be sure to describe each as well as the N and S views (support or oppose). DO NOT
copy word for word from the book. Be sure to summarize in your own words!     
Causes of the Civil War Graphic Organizer 
Term/ Event Description of Issue
stated that all states admitted below the north would be
a slave state.every state north of the mark would be free.
Missouri a slave state and main free state balancing the
Missouri Compromise 1820
power of the nation's capital.
congress admitted California as a free state and declared
the unorganized western territories free.
Compromise of 1850
the law required the northern states to return escaped
slave to their owners in the south.
Fugitive Slave Act
allowed previous free and unorganized territories of
Kansans and Nebraska to chose whether or not they
should have slavery.
Kansas Nebraska Act
Dred scott was a slave and lived with his master for two
years and his master died so he became a free slave in
The ​Dred Scott​ Decision actuality the supreme court made the decision that no
African american could not be a US citizen so therefore
he was still a slave.
Term/ Event Description of Issue
 
Southern / Northern View
Southerners opposed the Missouri Compromise
because it set a precedent for Congress to make
laws starting slavery, while Northerners disliked
the law because it meant slavery was expanded
into new territory.
the north gain the most. The balance of the Senate
was now with the free states, The victory for the
south was the Fugitive Slave Law. In the end, the
north refused to enforce it.
South was spreading slavery through federal
coercion and force regardless of the Northern
voters. In many Northern towns, slave catchers
were attacked, and set free captured fugitives.
line was now open to popular sovereignty. The
North was angry. The Kansas-Nebraska act made it
possible for the Kansas and Nebraska territories
(shown in orange) to open to slavery. The Missouri
Compromise had prevented this from happening
since 1820.
Southerners wanted to extend slavery throughout
the nation and ultimately rule the nation itself.
Southerners approved the Dred Scott decision
believing Congress had no right to prohibit slavery
in the territories.
Southern /Northern View
 The issue of slavery was adding new land. The issue with
state rights was they were being violated by the federal
Slavery & States’ Rights government.
He led a small army of 18 men into the town of
Harpers Ferry and attacked a federal arsenal.He plans
John Brown’s Raid on
Harpers Ferry to give arms to the slaves and insight of rebellion.
Abe Lincolin won the election. the republicna
candidates were running on the free soil platform.
Election of 1860
Tax on imported products American industry.tax hurt
farmers who had to pay more money for goods.
Protective Tariff
Book published in 1852 by Harriet Stowe that
captured the homer of slavery. promoted effect on
Uncle Tom’s Cabin attitudes toward African americans.
The South seceded over states' rights. Confederate
states did claim the right to secede, but no state
claimed to be seceding for that right. In fact,
Confederates opposed states' rights that is, the
right of Northern states not to support slavery
-intensified southern resentment
toward the abolitionist movement
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South Carolina's Declarations established precedent
and unabashedly claimed that the primary reason
for secession remained the refusal of northern
states to comply with the Fugitive Slave Act and the
Dred Scott (1857) decision.
the industrial north supported it but
the agricultural south opposed.
increased the differences between the North and
the South. Many Northerners realized how unjust
slavery was for the first time. With increasing
opposition to slavery, Southern slave owners
worked even harder to defend the institution.