Civil War Political Causes

There were many economic and political causes of the Civil War in the terms of conflict over economic policy and the expansion of slavery into the territories. Many documents, people, and events in history help to causes of the Civil War such as the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Missouri Compromise, Texas annexation, Wilmot Proviso, Compromise of 1850, Gadsden Purchase, the creation of the Republican Party, and the Dred Scott decision. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1854. The act allowed people in the territories(states) of Kansas and Nebraska to have the right to decide for themselves whether or not they would allow slaves within their borders. The purpose of the act was to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which wouldn’t
In March 1854, anti-slavery Whigs stared to begin meetings in the upper mid-western states to discuss the formation of a new party. The party they came up with was the Republican party in 1857. In addition, United States Supreme Court issues a decision in the Dred Scott case, giving the right of slave owners to take their slaves into Western territories, this would be negating the doctrine of popular sovereignty and greatly undermining the platform of the newly created Republican Party. Aside from that, the Texas annexation was the 1845 incorporation of the Republic of Texas as the 28th state in the United States of America, which was accepted in the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845. The Compromise of 1850 was made up of five laws that were passed in September of 1850. The laws dealt with the issue of slavery in America. The Gadsden Purchase is a 30,000-square-mile region of current southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. This region of land the United States bought in a treaty that was signed on December 30, 1853, by James
At the time the large majority of the Texas population favored the annexation of the Republic by the United States. The leadership of both major U.S. political parties, the Democrats and the Whigs, were against the introduction of Texas, because it was a huge slave-holding region. They didn’t see it as the best fit at the time because of the pro and antislavery disagreement. But they also wanted to avoid war with Mexico. The Republic Texas eventually became part of the United States. As events turned out over the next 15 years, the nation found out that they could no longer resolve the issues in the name by political means. The result of was the huge American Civil War. All of the slavery questions were settled but at a cost of 620,000 American lives. The Wilmot Proviso proposed an American law that banned slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War. This created major conflict in the nation. The conflict over the Wilmot proviso was one of the main events that impacted the American Civil War. The Wilmot Proviso passed the House of Representatives but failed in the Senate, where the South had larger representation. Wilmot spent multiple years of his life fighting for his plan. He offered it as an add on existing bills, and introduced it to Congress all by himself and he even tried to attach it to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. All of his attempts