Causes Of Compromises Before The Civil War

The Kansas Nebraska Act ended up being one of the deadliest compromises before the civil war almost like a preamble to it. If the voting to decide on the matter of Kansas becoming a free or slave state had been only open to the people living in Kansas for a certain amount of time this amount of death and destruction could have been avoided. But because of it, it only pushed the country closer to the edge of the civil war.
The Election of 1860 ended with the victory going to Abraham Lincoln. This election brought a lot of controversy with it since the south deeply opposed the election of Lincoln since he was a republican. The reasons being since the republicans opposed slavery. But the south was afraid that if he was elected that slavery would soon be banned afterward since he already said that slavery should not be able to move to other territories. However Lincoln was not going to ban slavery since it would be against the rights of the people. But the southerners still did not want to believe that. (Civil War Trust) …show more content…
This was the Crittenden Compromise. The Crittenden compromise of 1860 was created by John J. Crittenden. This compromise was to dissolve the conflict between the north and southern states by proposing six constitutional amendments and four congressional resolutions. All of these were saying that the established line for slavery would be increased and guaranty the permanent existence of slavery. Now the south was all for these new amendments and resolutions. But the north was against them bringing up the same old conflict between them. All of this ending up leading to the Civil War, which as it turns out in the end was always inevitable. (Crittenden