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NAME:________________________ KEY ISSUES AND EVENTS LEADING TO THE CIVIL WAR DIRECTIONS: Complete the organizer using the questions and answers you developed from pages 86-89 in your CRCT Workbook and text pages 231-245. KEY ISSUES AND EVENTS SLAVERY States’ Rights KANSAS NEBRASKA ACT WHAT/WHO ARE THEY? HOW DID THE EVENT OR PERSON CONTRIBUTE TO SECESSION? Being purchased for the purpose of providing service. The South’s economy was dependent on slavery. They feel threatened. The belief that the state’s interests should take precedence over the interests of the national government North- Decisions should benefit the whole country South- Believed deeply in states’ rights Kansas and Nebraska could vote on whether they would enter the union as a slave or free state. Created a big problem with the vote between anti-slavery and pro-slavery settlers which led to violence. “Bleeding Kansas” 1861 Kansas admitted as a free state. Nebraska not admitted until after the Civil War. NULLIFICATION MISSOURI COMPROMISE COMPROMISE OF 1850 GEORGIA PLATFORM Federal government passed tariff on foreign goods in an effort to force the South to buy goods from the N. instead of Europe. Tariff made the European goods more expensive than the Northern goods. S. Carolina felt they had the right to refuse to pay the tariffs passed by the federal government. Missouri wanted to be admitted into the Union as a slave state. Maine would enter as a free state No slavery in the Louisiana territory north of the 36 degree 30’ of latitude. (most of the land was North of this) Created problems later with the balance. CA wants admitted as a free state. This would throw off the balance of free and slave. Admit CA as a free state Abolished slavery in the District of Columbia Stronger Fugitive Slave act. New Mexico and Utah could make their own decision. Southerners felt the agricultural economy was being neglected in favor of the interests of the Northern economy. A convention to discuss the Compromise of 1850. Decided against secession. S. still concerned about preserving slavery. DRED SCOTT CASE ELECTION OF 1860 ROLE OF ALEXANDER STEPHENS AND SECESSION A slave and his family in a free state sued for his freedom. Missouri courts ruled against him. Supreme ct. ruled against him also. Said that slaves weren’t citizens and not entitled to rights under the Constitution. Important victory for the Southern slaveholders. Republicans elected Abraham Lincoln Democracts were split Northern-Stephen A. Douglas and Popular Sovereignty. Southern- John Breckinridge Lincoln Wins! Convinces many southerners they need to leave the Union. GA’s representative at the GA platform convention. Felt the union should be preserved. After the South secedes he becomes VP of the Confederate states.