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Events leading to the Civil War Chart

 Missouri
NORTH:
Compromise
Fearful that Southern States
May gain power, but
Happy clear lines concerning
Slavery have been drawn

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SOUTH:
Hopeful that as US continues
Manifest Destiny it would
Give slavery a chance to
expand
 Popular Sovereignty

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1. Cali is Free
2. Utah and New Mexico to decide themselves about slavery
3. No more slavery in Washington D.C.
4. Fugitive Slave Act
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NORTH: SOUTH:
Question of Slavery Hopeful that slavery
Finally settled for good Would expand
 NORTH:
Fugitive slave Law
Creates personal liberty laws and
Says that no state money will go
To returning fugitive slaves; Uncle
Tom’s Cabin

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Outraged by Northern refusal
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a twisted
Fictional view of slavery
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Bleeding Kansas
 DRED SCOTT
NORTH: Upset by courts ruling: Neither Dred
Scott or any other person of African Ancestry
was a citizen of the US, therefore he didn’t have
the right to sue.
All territory now open to slavery
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SOUTH: Felt justified. They could take their

“property” where ever they pleased
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SOUTH:
A territory still has
NORTH: The right to ban
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NORTH:
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South: Straw that

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 Secession

NORTH: Not Allowed!

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SOUTH: The union is a

Voluntary contract that
States can leave at any time.
 Fort Sumter

NORTH: Lincoln will

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