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    The document summarizes the key events and causes that led to the outbreak of the American Civil War. There were several major points of contention between the northern and southern states, including the expansion of slavery into new western territories, the Fugitive Slave Act, and a series of court decisions and legislative acts in the 1850s that heightened regional tensions over states' rights and the future of slavery. The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, a president who opposed the expansion of slavery, led several southern states to secede and ultimately sparked the Civil War when Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina in 1861.

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    The document summarizes the key events and causes that led to the outbreak of the American Civil War. There were several major points of contention between the northern and southern states, including the expansion of slavery into new western territories, the Fugitive Slave Act, and a series of court decisions and legislative acts in the 1850s that heightened regional tensions over states' rights and the future of slavery. The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, a president who opposed the expansion of slavery, led several southern states to secede and ultimately sparked the Civil War when Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina in 1861.

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    The document summarizes the key events and causes that led to the outbreak of the American Civil War. There were several major points of contention between the northern and southern states, including the expansion of slavery into new western territories, the Fugitive Slave Act, and a series of court decisions and legislative acts in the 1850s that heightened regional tensions over states' rights and the future of slavery. The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, a president who opposed the expansion of slavery, led several southern states to secede and ultimately sparked the Civil War when Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina in 1861.

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    Civil War Causes Worksheet

    (I) Pre-1820: Slaves worked in the (VIII) Cause #4 (1859)


    South picking cotton and tobacco. John Brown’s Raid
    Slaves had to do whatever their masters John Brown was an abolitionist who tried to get
    told them to do. weapons to give to slaves for an uprising against
    their masters. He was unsuccessful but he was
    considered a hero by the North.

    (II) Missouri Compromise of 1820

    1.

    (VII) Illinois Election for Senator (1858)


    2. (Lincoln/Douglas Debates)
    Stephen Douglas supported the Dred Scott Decision.
    Abraham Lincoln opposed it.
    Douglas believed in popular sovereignty for the new
    3.
    territories and Lincoln was against allowing slavery
    to expand west.
    Douglas wins the election.

    (III)Compromise of 1850
    (VI)Cause #3: (1857)
    1. The Dred Scott Decision
    1.

    2.
    2.

    3.
    3.

    4.

    (V)Cause #2: Kansas-Nebraska Act


    (IV)Cause # 1: (1852) (1854)/Bleeding Kansas (1856)
    Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Kansas & Nebraska decide by vote whether or not
    Stowe: Abolitionist they want slavery. (Popular sovereignty) Stephen
    Told about the horrors of slavery. Douglas came up with the idea of allowing Kansas
    and Nebraska to vote on whether or not there should
    be slavery.

    Violence breaks out: Pro-Slavery and Anti-Slavery


    people are killed. Some believe this is the first
    action of the Civil War.
    (IX) Cause # 5: Election of 1860 (X): Secession/Attack at Ft. Sumter (1861)
    1. Candidates:
    1. Who seceded?
    2. Who won?
    2. Why did the South secede?

    3. Why did that person win?


    Attack at Fort Sumter: Spark of the war.

    Causes of the Civil War Effects of those causes

    Uncle Tom’s Cabin

    Kansas-Nebraska Act
    Bleeding Kansas

    Dred Scott Decision

    John Brown’s Raid

    Election of 1860

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