Causes of Civil War Part 1

New Land Renews Slavery Disputes Popular sovereignty: let the people decide on the issue of slavery by voting. Example: Kansas

Wilmot Proviso A document stating that “ neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of the territory.”-David Wilmot

Free Soil Party A new party formed in the north to support the Wilmot Proviso

Sectionalism - Favoring the interest of one section or region over the interest of the entire country.

Compromise of 1850 Henry Clay California would enter the Union as a free state The rest of the Mexican Cession would be federal land: Utah and New Mexico….popular sovereignty would decide on slavery. Border between Texas and New Mexico solidified. The slave trade, but not slavery would end in the nation’s capital. A more effective fugitive slave law would be passed.

The Nation after the Compromise of 1850 The Nation before the Compromise of 1850 The Nation after the Compromise of 1850

Result California was able to enter the Union as a free state. The rest of the Mexican Cession was divided into two territories. Utah New Mexico Where the question of slavery would be decided by Popular Sovereignty The southern or slave states did not secede-(formally withdraw from the Union) Again everything settled down between the North and the South

Fugitive Slave Act It declared that all runaway slaves be brought back to their masters. Abolitionists nicknamed it the "Bloodhound Law" for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War