Political Causes: When Abraham lincoln was president, slavery was poplar in the south and the north did not suport slavery. Abraham lincoln did all in his power to make slavery to stop, he did not think anyone should be owned by another person. Social Causes: Most Southern states believed in state sovereignty (state power) and felt that a state had the power to cancel a federal law it considered unconstitutional. In the 1820s -1830s, the idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal and canceling. Economic Causes: The issue of slavery had been debated since the creation of the U.S. Constitution. Many Northerners felt slavery was an evil institution, but in the South it was an economic necessity. Even though only 25% of white southerners owned slaves and half of these families had fewer than four slaves, the tiny (2%) elite who owned 50 or more slaves held a majority of slave property in the South and thus had both economic and political power. Timeline Progressing Towards War1820: The idea of a state declaring a federal law illegal and canceling it (nullification) put the concept of states’rights to the test. 1828-1832: In 1828 and 1832 designed to help Northern manufacturers compete against foreign competition by taxing European imports to increase the costs of these goods. 1846-1848: Since the Missouri Compromise only pertained to the Louisiana Purchase, the question of slavery in these territories was still unresolved and created more tension between the North and South. While Southerners supported slavery in this territory, Northerners opposed the spread of slavery west. 1850: The country began to think the slavery question should be settled in the courts because Congress’s attempt at compromises still left widespread disagreement. 1852:Harriett Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a dramatic novel exposing the cruelties of slavery. 1854: We just got the Louisiana Purchase: Kansas and Nebraska. 1856: They had stoped all trades with all slaves. 1860: The first republican president Abraham Lincoln was elected. Connect to Self When me and this person used to be friends we got in a fight and she said that I was spreding rumor about her and makeing fun of her then she told her dad that I sent her some bad pics, but she was lineing about all that she was just made at me for stop being friends with her. the Nest day she would not leave my table and she was calling me and my friends names then I told her that if she want leave the table I would tell the princsable about whats going on. then I got up and was walking to the princsable to tell him, then she put her hands on me and choked me and the nest day her dad called my dad and my dad told him that she is being rude to me and name calling then told him about what she did to me. Her and my dad told us to not talk to each other. Connect to Self I would take the confederation side Becuase the north had an better agrement about slavery. I TT |