One event that contributed the Civil war was the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. This allowed for new territories to decide if they were a slave state or a free state by a popular vote. This act undid the Missouri Compromise and started the disagreement between the pro/anti-slavery groups. The effect of this was fighting and violence that became known as Bleeding Kansas and this had troubled the nation. The Missouri compromise had kept the Union from falling apart which is why it eventually led to the Civil war. Another major cause of the war was the Dred Scott case. Scott was a slave who sued his owner arguing that he escorted Dred Scott to the free soil giving him freedom. The courts went against him because as a slave, he was a piece of property
