Slavery

Slavery degusted northerners. Many people believed Slavery was

morally wrong and wanted to do something about it. The book

Uncle Tom's Cabin and the newspaper The Liberator argued how

wrong it was. In this, Slavery was a major cause in the

outbreak of the Civil War.

There were many things that led to the Civil War. One

of which were the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of

1850 in the Missouri Compromise, Missouri wanted to become a

slave state and northerners demanded something be done. This

made southerners outraged. This was just beginning of the

tension between the North and South. Also, the Compromise of

1850 rose more tension. California wanted to become a free

state and of course south politicians had a hissy fit like

the North did when Missouri wanted to become a slave state.

When California wanted to become a free state, it just made

things worse between the North and South. Now, this would

not have been a problem if not for slavery.

Also many conflicts were brought about because of

slavery. Bleeding Kansas became the catchword for the

escalating violence over slavery. There was bloodshed all

the way to capitol hill. At one point in 1856 congressman

Prestor Brooks of South Carolina entered the nearly empty

Senate chamber and beat Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner

with a cane. Brooks felt that Sumner's "Crime Against

Kansas" speech, which verbally attacked Brooks Kinsman had

Warranted the retaliation. This proves how extreme the

tensions between the North and South were. When you have

political heads attacking each other you know you're in

trouble. Also when a few states got the right to be free or

slave this rose tensions even more. Of course the North

wanted