After seeing all the effects that states’ rights, the Missouri compromise, abolitionist movement, bleeding Kansas, and John Brown had on causing the Civil War, it is clear that slavery was not the only thing that caused the war. Even though slavery was not always a good thing, it was not only a bad thing either. Bleeding Kansas had a big effect because the north wanted Kansas to be a free state while the south wanted it to be a slave state. John Brown killed innocent people only because they took part in what he was against. While the northers liked the federal union, the south did not, because the government did not abide by the constitution and that angered southerners. The Missouri compromise tried to ease tensions but it only made the northers
