USHC 3.1 -Causes of the Civil War - Part 1

Louisiana Purchase

Mexican Cession

guide future decisions

abolish slavery

slave state

free state

slave state

free state

Adopting laws to promote better treatment of slaves

Maintaining equal numbers of slave and free states

Establishing a way to address the issue of slavery in future states

Ending sectional differences in the nation

yes

no

no slave labor

free land

slave state

free state

voting whether or not to have slavery

outlawing slavery

abolitionists

fugitive slaves

slave owners

southern judges

to get southern support for a transcontinental railroad

to get northern support for a transcontinental railroad

free soil

popular sovereignty

proslavery and abolitionists

Democratic Republicans and Federalists

introduction of the Wilmot Proviso

election of Abraham Lincoln

adoption of the Missouri Compromise

passage of the Kansas Nebraska Act

Wilmot Proviso

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

Fugitive slave law

Free soil laws

Democrats

Republicans

Progressives

Populists

the Fugitive Slave Act

the Tariff of Abominations

the 1832 Ordinance of Nullification

the Alien and Sedition Acts

Extension of slavery into the western territories

Equitable distribution of frontier lands to the owners of small farms

Placement of protective tariffs on foreign imports

Need for international improvements in transportation