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Timeline Practice - Causes of Civil War
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Slavery
Millions of African Americans were enslaved.
The North did not want slavery to continue in America wanted to abolish slavery. The South wanted slavery to continue because of their economy and wanted slavery to spread West. -
The Missouri Compromise
Missouri wants to join the U.S. but they are a slave state so it would upset the balance between slave and free states
Solution:
Missouri joins the U.S. as a slave state
Maine joins as a free state
36 30 - a line is drawn in the Louisiana Purchase territory...the land above that line is closed to slavery
The Missouri Compromise is later declared unconstitutional/voided by the Dred Scott Decision. The unorganized territory is now open to slavery.