Political Causes-Sectional views on slavery and other issues had caused a political power struggle between the free labor states of the North and the slave labor states of the South.The concern about slavery really heated up when new states applied to join the U.S. because both the North and South wanted to keep the number of slave and non-slave states equal to balance the power in Congress.
Social Causes-In the 1820, Missouri applied to become a state and started a chain reaction of critical events. Missouri’s admission as a slave state would upset the balance of power and give the South a majority in the Senate. Northerners fought against letting Missouri enter the Union. A debate raged for months until Kentucky Senator Henry Clay
suggested a plan called The Missouri Compromise.
Economic Causes-
The chief crop for the South; it also represented fifty-seven percent of all American exports. The prosperity of cotton fulfilled the South's reliance on the plantation system and its crucial element—slavery. While in the north it was mostly about the manufactoring and free labor.
North developed into an industrial society based on manufactured goods and free labor. Northern industrialists wanted high land prices to discourage westward migration of their labor force and a high tariff to protect U.S. goods from foreign competition.
Timeline Progressing Towards War
1820:In 1820, Missouri applied to become a state
1828-1832:The Nullification Crisis
1846-1848:In 1848, the U.S. acquired vast amounts of land in the Southwest, called the Mexican Cession
1850:Compromise of 1850
1852:Harriett Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a dramatic novel exposing the cruelties of slavery
1854:Two new territories were created from the Louisiana Purchase: Kansas and Nebraska.Illinois Senator, Stephen Douglas, proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854,
1856:popular sovereignty caused a small-scale civil war known as “Bleeding Kansas” when violence between proslavery settlers and antislavery settlers blew up in the state.
1860:The first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, was elected after running on this platform
Question of the Day-What side might you have taken in 1860?
In 1860 the side i might want to take was the North side. That's because in the Civil War had less devastating effects on the North than the South. Plus most of the combat of the Civil War occurred on Southern soil.
Refer back to a recent disagreement you have had with a friend. Think about what caused it, the effect it had on your friendship, and the effect it had overall in the big picture of life. What are some things that might create major disagreements within our society? Try to list an economic cause of the Civil War, social cause of the Civil War, and a political cause of the Civil War.
A time i had a disagreement with a friend was when we went to six flags and agrued which rides to ride. It had some effect on our friendship and the big picture of it was we had time to ride all the rides we wanted and didn't need to agure over it. Some major disagreemnents that might create within our society is rasicm.A economic cause of the civil war was the society of the north and south. A poltical cause was mostly about slavery and a social cause was the MIssouri Compromise.
Social Causes-In the 1820, Missouri applied to become a state and started a chain reaction of critical events. Missouri’s admission as a slave state would upset the balance of power and give the South a majority in the Senate. Northerners fought against letting Missouri enter the Union. A debate raged for months until Kentucky Senator Henry Clay
suggested a plan called The Missouri Compromise.
Economic Causes-
The chief crop for the South; it also represented fifty-seven percent of all American exports. The prosperity of cotton fulfilled the South's reliance on the plantation system and its crucial element—slavery. While in the north it was mostly about the manufactoring and free labor.
North developed into an industrial society based on manufactured goods and free labor. Northern industrialists wanted high land prices to discourage westward migration of their labor force and a high tariff to protect U.S. goods from foreign competition.
Timeline Progressing Towards War
1820:In 1820, Missouri applied to become a state
1828-1832:The Nullification Crisis
1846-1848:In 1848, the U.S. acquired vast amounts of land in the Southwest, called the Mexican Cession
1850:Compromise of 1850
1852:Harriett Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a dramatic novel exposing the cruelties of slavery
1854:Two new territories were created from the Louisiana Purchase: Kansas and Nebraska.Illinois Senator, Stephen Douglas, proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854,
1856:popular sovereignty caused a small-scale civil war known as “Bleeding Kansas” when violence between proslavery settlers and antislavery settlers blew up in the state.
1860:The first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, was elected after running on this platform
Question of the Day-What side might you have taken in 1860?
In 1860 the side i might want to take was the North side. That's because in the Civil War had less devastating effects on the North than the South. Plus most of the combat of the Civil War occurred on Southern soil.
Refer back to a recent disagreement you have had with a friend. Think about what caused it, the effect it had on your friendship, and the effect it had overall in the big picture of life. What are some things that might create major disagreements within our society? Try to list an economic cause of the Civil War, social cause of the Civil War, and a political cause of the Civil War.
A time i had a disagreement with a friend was when we went to six flags and agrued which rides to ride. It had some effect on our friendship and the big picture of it was we had time to ride all the rides we wanted and didn't need to agure over it. Some major disagreemnents that might create within our society is rasicm.A economic cause of the civil war was the society of the north and south. A poltical cause was mostly about slavery and a social cause was the MIssouri Compromise.