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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.