Bleeding Kansas

Congress and the Senate were the source behind all of the political decisions which lead to the civil war, These and many other political decisions were the reason that the North and the South could no longer stand each other and ended up going to war against each other. The Dred Scott Decision, talked about in source 10, was one major decision that the two sides were conflicted on. Slave Dred Scott sued for his freedom after having spent years living in a free state, and the final decision was…

Texas had recently earned its freedom from Mexico and the Southerners wanted it. After being argued about in the election of 1844, James K. Polk pushed and pushed to get Texas until it was finally added to America. In 1845 Texas was officially added to the United States as a slave state. After the addition of Texas, many Southerners also wanted to gain the other land in the south, such as California and New Mexico. The attempt to get this land, eventually started a war with Mexico. The Americans…

this verdict. In 1857, the Lecompton Constitution was created permitting for Kansas to be a slave state. Pro-slavery forces supported by President James Buchanan struggled to thrust the Constitution through the United States Congress for approval. However, there was enough hostility that in 1858 it was sent back to Kansas for another vote. Even though it postponed statehood, Kansas voters rejected the Constitution and Kansas became a free state. This infuriated pro-slavery southerners and only…

because of an increase in sectionalism between the North and South. (Doc 5) When Kansas was being admitted as a state, popular sovereignty was being enforced, and many people were being encouraged to vote Free through the use of an advertisement. (Doc 7) Kansas was going to be admitted as a free state, but border ruffians from the South crossed the border into Kansas and voted so that it would become a slave state. With Kansas being admitted as a slave state, and a re-vote being denied by the…

Research Paper: Events that Led to the Civil War The events that I think led to the American Civil War were; The Missouri Compromise of 1820, “Bleeding Kansas”(1954), The Dred Scott decision of 1857, and the Battle at Fort Sumner of 1861. The reason why these events played such an immense role in the lead up to the Civil War was because they created a vast rift between the South and North over their respective thoughts about the existence of slavery. Ever since slavery had been…

Understand how the controversy of the Kansas-Nebraska Act led to the birth of the modern day Republican Party. The controversy of the Kansas-Nebraska Act that was passed on May 20, 1854, was regarding the practice of popular sovereignty which allowed the white people in the two territories to vote if they desired to allow slavery or abolish slavery. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was introduced by Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois who wanted to build a transcontinental railroad through Chicago…

Before 1860 the American government had always settled its disagreements with compromise. The Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas Nebraska act are all instances where there were disagreements settled with compromise. This worked until the tension over slavery started to result in violence. By the year 1860 it seemed that nobody was willing to compromise. This was because there was no more room for compromise with slavery, the growing hatred of it in the North meant it had…

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,…

Tara O’Leary-Stieb The United States was divided into two regions, the North and the South, during the 1850’s. The tensions were high between the two, and they were pit against each other in a battle over slavery, an issue that appeared to have no solution. The seemingly never-ending conflict became much more concerning as the threat of succession of the pro-slavery Southern states started to become more prominent. Over the course of a decade, many historic events occurred that led to the…

that there are four critical events prior to 1861, that were the main causes of the worst war on American soil. I firmly believe that the creation of the cotton gin and the agricultural growth of cotton crops, the failure of The Compromise of 1850, Bleeding…