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Civil War Causes
| Made Missouri a slave state | The Missouri Compromise |
| Made Maine it's own state and made it free | The Missouri Compromise |
| Created an imaginary line at the 36 30 degree line | The Missouri Compromise |
| Dealt with the territory bought from Mexico | Compromise of 1850 |
| Made California a free state | Compromise of 1850 |
| Let Utah and New Mexico decide if they were free or slave states because they were territories | Compromise of 1850 |
| Stopped the slave trade in Washington D.C. | Compromise of 1850 |
| Gave people an idea of how slaves were treated | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Made the southerners angry because it made them look heartless and cruel | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Let Kansas and Nebraska decide to join the north or south | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| Pro and Anti slavery groups flooded into Kansas and Nebraska so that they could change the vote | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| "Bleeding Kansas" | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| Kansas and Nebraska are open to slavery which outrages the north | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| A slave sues his master from taking him to a free state | Dred Scott Decision |
| A slave loses a case against his master because he can't be a citizen | Dred Scott Decision |
| Showed northern states how slaves were treated, as property, not people | Dred Scott Decision |
| A man started a revolt for slaves | John Brown at Harper's Ferry |
| Only 20 men showed up to capture the U.S. arsenal and steal the weapons | John Brown at Harper's Ferry |
| A man was found guilty for capturing a U.S. arsenal and was hanged | John Brown at Harper's Ferry |
| 2 men debated for a seat in the Illinois Senate | Lincoln-Douglas Debates |
| Stephan Douglas got the seat in the Senate | Lincoln-Douglas Debates |
| The topic was about who should decide what states are free and what states are slave | Lincoln-Douglas Debates |
| One of the Candidates was named Stephan Douglas who was a Democrat from the north | Election of 1850 |
| One of the candidates was Abraham Lincoln who was a Republican from the north | Election of 1850 |
| One of the candidates was John Bell who was from the Constitutional Union and was from the Border | Election of 1850 |
| One of the candidates was John C. Breckenridge who was a Democrat from the south | Election of 1850 |