Bleeding Kansas

the Civil War. However one might argue that the Kansas-Nebraska act (and “Bleeding Kansas”) was the main cause. The act allowed for states to choose to be Slave or Free that then caused many conflicts that eventually lead up to the Civil War. The Missouri Compromise was one of the first…

Slavery was a widely controversial topic during the 1800’s. The North and South could not come to an agreement in many Congress meetings. They always had opposing views on many topics, especially slavery. The North thought slavery was wrong and wanted to end it. The South supported slavery because they profited from agriculture and in the south, slaves did all of the work for the Plantation owners. Disagreement caused the United States of America to break apart. This led to an inevitable Civil…

The Civil war was a substantial part in U.S. history caused by controversy in slavery, trade, and territory. Expansion towards the West lead to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 and a war with Mexico starting in 1846 abiding for two years. This treaty led to the Northern and Southern states disagreeing on whether the new states should be free of slaves, or obtain slaves, because the acquiring of new land. Later on, the Compromise of 1850 added tension to the occurring controversy with…

The topic of slavery is one dated back to the beginning of the United States and continued to be discussed throughout the history of it as well. It was a key issue that would lead to several laws and compromises that would be put into place before the Civil War. With these new laws and compromises, the tension between the North and South continued to grow. These tensions increased more with the difference in economics between the two territories. It is often thought that the sole reason for the…

Slavery and Westward Expansion had a very volatile relationship in the Antebellum era America and would contribute to the American Civil War. Westward expansion and the Missouri Compromise of 1820 would be a way to preserve unity within the Union, but over the next 30 years, ties between the Northern and Southern states would be strained as more territory is gained and the question regarding slavery’s place within these new lands. Through an analysis of book and article sources, one gains the…

southern states prevented this. Henry Clay created a compromise where California entered as a free state, but the North had to agree to the fugitive slave law, and the New Mexico territory was open to popular sovereignty. Four years later, in the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the North got a railroad in Chicago, but the Missouri Compromise was taken out of effect and the North could decide if they wanted to be a free or slave state. This proves that popular sovereignty caused the Civil War because the…

Douglas suggested the Kansas-Nebraska Act because he wanted to remove any obstacles to the transcontinental railroad. The act allowed both Kansas and Nebraska to be admitted into the union as either a slave or free state depending on what the citizens voted and is also known as popular sovereignty. It also overturned the Missouri Compromise…

The Civil War was inevitable because the North and South both had very different economies, the social and political developments separated them, and they tried to compromise multiple times but they failed, armed conflict was inevitable. Eli Whitney’s cotton gin speed the process of separating the seeds out of the cotton and this facilitated a boom and it became the leading export in the US. Cotton was an ideal crop to grow because it was easy to grow and it could be stored for long periods of…

Causes of the Civil War There could have been many causes to the start of the civil war in 1861. However, the main focus and cause of this war, is due to the relationships of the Northern states and the Southern states of what is known today as America. The North had a different mindset towards the future of america than the South had in mind. The Northern states wanted to start moving forward into the future, developing railroads and industrialising the North. The South however had a…

was the Bleeding Kansas. Bleeding Kansas was a brutal conflict against pro-slavery and antislavery parties. A fight between the two groups broke out on the Kansas border. In Lawrence, Kansas, on May 21, 1856, slavery supporters burned part of the town (Etcheson 1). In 1859, John Brown led an attack on five pro-slavery men and brutally murdered them in their sleep (Carson 1). After they claimed more than 50 lives, the newspapers dubbed the series of violent conflicts as, “Bleeding Kansas.” The…