Why Did The South Led Up To The Civil War

Before the Civil War the North did not rely on slaves but on free labor, and the South did rely on slavery for their plantations. The South did eventually fight to keep slavery because they saw no moral wronging in it. The causes that slowly led up to the Civil War are the Kansas-Nebraska Act, John Brown 's assault on Harper 's Ferry, the North 's and the South 's belief of one another and how that belief was heightened, the Fugitive Slave Act- new and old, Uncle Tom 's Cabin, and the Dred Scott Decision, and key political problems.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act opened two territories to the possibility of slavery and it was decided that the states would decide- slave or free. If farming was so important then why did the south run to claim Kansas …show more content…
It heightened that belief because John Brown and his group invaded the South and started killing other slave owners. They saw it as the North "killing their way of life." The North saw Southerners as going to bring slavery into the North and that the South was going to take over the North. The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the New Fugitive Slave Act heightened those beliefs. The Kansas-Nebraska Act scared the North because of the possibility of more slave states. "Another surge of radicalism occurred in 1850 with the passage of the Fugitive Slave Laws." (Washington). The New Fugitive Slave Act angered the North because it allowed plantation owners and federal marshals to come into the North and take any and all escaped slaves. The North saw it as the South taking over and also that the federal government favored the South more. Before The New Fugitive Slave Act, the original Fugitive Slave Act made American citizens have to return escaped slaves to their owners. The states enforced it and it didn 't get far. The law enforcement would turn a blind eye usually when bribed and that 's how the North defied the South 's influenced law. The …show more content…
"There is very little moral mixture in the anti-slavery feeling of this country. A great deal is abstract philanthropy; part is hatred of slaveholders; a great part is jealousy for white labor, very little is consciousness of wrong done and the wish to write it." (Etheart). In other words, there is little mixture in morality and a lot of it has to do with hatred, jealously, and unacknowledging when somethings wrong. But with all of the causes and conflicts, between the North and the South, the Civil War was inevitable and slavery was a big attribution and cause of the