One of the
major causes of the civil war had to do with the expansion of the United States and the conflict
over whether new states would be admitted to the Union as slave states or free states. Though
the Missouri Compromise was considered to be a partial solution, many people felt that it set in
motion an unstoppable slide towards the war.
Nat Turner's slave rebellion in
1831 also caused Virginian lawmakers to remove some basic civil rights that had been accorded to
slaves contributing to further unrest.
The Compromise of 1850, intended as a
further band-aid to problems inherent in the westward expansion of the United States also pushed
the country closer to open conflict.
John Brown's raid in 1859 coupled with
the election of Abraham Lincoln and his Republican Party's anti-slavery position led to the
secession of South Carolina which was then followed by other southern states in 1860.
An attempt to re-supply Fort Sumter triggered a Southern response, the first open
battle of the Civil War that would lead to the surrender of Fort Sumter and the onset of the
Civil War.
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