Civil War Dbq

Other important events that led to the war were the Tariffs of 1828 or the Tariff of Abominations which was taxing imported goods at a very high rates. It encouraged the industry of the Northern states, but it angered the South which economy was based on agriculture. South Carolina voted to nullify the tariffs of 1828. This led to the Nullification crisis of 1832. The Nullification theory of John Calhoun, which is a concept about invalidation of federal law within the orders of a state, initiated a secession as well. When a compromise Tariff of 1832 only slightly modified the existing taxes, the South Carolina legislature called a state convention and adopted the Ordinance of Nullification, which declared both tariffs null and void for the state of South Carolina. President Jackson …show more content…
However, unrest in the Southern states continued, eventually leading to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. Another cause for the Civil War was abolitionism. Abolitionism movement was growing in Northern states with hopes to end slavery. William Garrison was the leader and he founded the New-England Anti-Slavery Society in 1831 and the American Anti-Slavery Society. Abolitionists believed to appeal to the conscience of the slaveholders. They wanted and pleaded for immediate end of slavery, slavery as a national sin. They believed in free-soil-land with no slavery. Anti-abolitionists in South were against abolitionism. They were afraid this may destroy the differences between blacks and whites, and between women and man. Also anti-abolitionists everywhere feared that blacks will go North and take the jobs from whites. They wanted to protect slavery and to protect the domestic slave trade. After many years of relying on the profitable cotton, the soil become depleted