Timeline of Events:
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Long Term Causes:
- Slave Labor in the south: Created problems economically , socially, and politically. The slave labor made the south more agricultural, the slaves also brought racism among the states, and Fugitive Slave Act/Personal Liberty Laws.
- Dred Scott Decision: When the supreme court ruled that any black would not be a citizen therefore fight for freedom, this was a long term cause because of the events that happened in response (enraged the north).
- Bleeding Kansas: A massacre stirs up the north and south, fighting for the slaves had begun now and this was going to be a long-term cause.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin: This effected the war socially, because Harriet's book was anti-slavery but at the same time Harriet was a well-cared white woman who not only had never experienced slavery, also had nothing to do with it. So many saw her as a person who didn't carry the burdens in her book.
- The Disagreement of slavery: The north and south's different views greatly effected the cause of the war. Many in the north opposed slavery, but most in the south disagreed and wanted to keep slaves to keep them wealthy with labor.
- The competition for jobs: immigrants had a hard time getting jobs still to this day, and the competition of jobs in the north and south heated up the relations, making it a cause as well.
- The economy was different: The north and south's economy was greatly effected by the war, and also a cause of it. The north was mostly factories and the south was mostly agricultural which caused some differences between the two sides.
- Fugitive Slave Act/Personal Liberty Laws: This was a pair of federal laws that states that local governments could capture and return escaped slaves from war and return them to their owners. Anyone who aided the escaped slaves would also be penalized for aiding the escaped slaves.
- 1860, Lincoln is elected president
- February of 1861, Confederate States of America are formed.
- Jefferson Davis was elected president
- Confederates fire on South Carolina Union