Reform & Division: Topics of This Week (Some Causes of the Civil War)Division: Before Trump and even after political parties, the country was divided. We started seeing this division more clearly through the Missouri Compromise and Nullification Crisis through sectionalism (the division or separation of a country based upon a key issue or key issues). This division won't go away. It will worsen based upon regional, cultural, & moral differences that will eventually lead to the Civil War (a domestic war between the two most prominent regions- the North & the South). This is a list of the things that will divide the country and lead to the Civil War. * Northwest Ordinance of 1787 * Missouri Compromise of 1820 *Compromise of 1850 * Fugitive Slave Law * Kansas-Nebraska of 1854 *Rise of the Republican Party * Bleeding Kansas *Dred Scott vs. Stanford (1857) |
Division: What Leads to the Civil WarNorthwest Ordinance of 1787: Provided guidelines of how to become a state in the Union (US) and set the thought there would be no slavery in the northwest territories admitted into the US.
* Missouri Compromise of 1820: In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. *Compromise of 1850: Seen as an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South. As part of the Compromise of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished. * Fugitive Slave Law: The Fugitive Slave Act or Fugitive Slave Law was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers. * Kansas-Nebraska of 1854: Passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´. *Rise of the Republican Party: By February 1854, anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in the upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a new party. One such meeting, in Wisconsin on March 20, 1854, is generally remembered as the founding meeting of the Republican Party. * Bleeding Kansas: The Border War was a series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861 which emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery in the proposed state of Kansas. *Dred Scott vs. Stanford (1857): Supreme Court reiterates that slaves (Scott) are property, not US citizens, therefore are not entitled to citizenship privileges (like freedom). |
Division in the AirDivision: Leading Up to the Civil War
Division will be in the air as well in the 19th century. The country will divide over an ideal that centered around lifestyles. Slavery vs. non-slavery. Ideas of humanity & non-humanity. Ideas of what should be acceptable and what should be considered abominable. |