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Northwest Ordinance
Provided a government off of Thomas Jefferson's ideas. This government had ideas of banning slavery in territories and slavery is a big reason the Civil War started. -
3/5 Compromise
A slave would be counted as ⅗ of a states population which made it easier to not give them rights and let them fight for those rights that they want. This is important to the Civil War because it made it harder for them to free themselves witch is a huge contributor to the war. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Gave the right to people that if their slave ran to a free state they could go find them and bring them back to a slave state. Which influenced the war because the slaves would run north and the southerners tried to get them and now you have very opposite sides of a opinion trying to take their property back. -
Invention of cotton gin
Made slavery blow up and made the south dependent on cotton. This influenced the war because the south was dependent on cotton and they needed slaves to pick that cotton and use the gin. -
Ban on Slave Importation
Banning importation on slaves but not slavery. This Influenced the war because the price of slavery went up because There where no more slaves coming in and the South still wanted more slaves. -
Missouri Compromise
Drew a line that split free states and slave states. This influenced the war because it would later be broken and they started moving west instead of north or south. -
Nat Turner Rebellion
A massacre in Virginia that killed 55 people including women and children and struck fear into white people which made people harder on slaves. This influenced the war because he was fighting for his freedom but the south did not like that and north did not support it but believed that slaves should be free. -
South Carolina Nullification Crisis
South Carolina nullified the tariffs set and threatened to secede. Another warning that Would later be a problem that started the war. -
Wilmot Proviso
Ban slavery in states that were originally property of Mexico. since the south could only expand slavery west ward and Mexico was south west they where not happy and did not believe that it was right. -
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
It ended the Mexican-American war and everybody got what they wanted. This influenced the war because people where not okay with it being a slave state or not a slave state. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Let people decide whether they want the state to be a slave state or a free one ignoring the Missouri compromise line and causing lots of violence because of the very different people. This influenced the war because it was basically what happened in the war just mini version. -
Bleeding Kansas
Multiple massacres in Kansas that scared lots of slave owners. This influenced the war because they saw what people where willing to do to free them selves. -
John Brown’s Raid at Harper’s Ferry
A uprising that failed because of to many soldiers and not enough slaves to help fight. This influenced the war Because they where showing what they where willing to do to free them selves. -
Dred Scott Decision
A court case in which the supreme court said that no slaves had no rights and were considered property. This influenced the war because it showed that the south did not care at all about free states and would never give up slavery. -
Lincoln’s election
When Lincoln got elected and when he was in office banned slavery after a while. When Lincoln promised to ban slavery that led to southern states seceding. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin published
A non-fiction book that told about what being a slave is like and was later mentioned as the “Book of Lies”. This influenced the war because it showed the north how bad slavery was and that it needed to go and made the north mad.