All of the reason are responsible In this period to push the nation toward civil war.
1846 - 1850 The Wilmot Proviso
1850 The Compromise of 1850
1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act established Kansas and Nebraska as territories and set the stage for “Bleeding Kansas''.
1857 Dred Scott v. Sanford, The decision of Dred Scott.
1858 Lincoln-Douglas Debates
1859 fugitive slave act by John Brown’s Raid
The fundamental cause of the American Civil War was slavery, and political parties had to realign and undergo reform as a result. Newspapers, authors of novels, campaigners, and reformers all entered the discussion, each contributing to—or perhaps attempting to—inflame—the problem in their own unique ways.
These all played significant roles in the decade before the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War.
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