Pre War Tension Essay
Statement: Explain how this event was an example of the added ‘pre-war tension’ between the North and the South...
Tariff of Abominations
Western Territories
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
I see the Civil War as a big family dispute divided by different interests, attitudes, and overall lifestyles. The Union was disputing between the Northern and Southern states because of their different views on how they wanted their country to be like. But before the Civil War, there were events that took place that started to pull the Union apart leading to the overall outcome of a national epidemic. These events created a division within the Union, turning brother against brother. John Brown predicted a war by making a statement before his execution …show more content…
Planting and picking crops became the primary work of slaves which supported plantation owners'. So, Southern states became dependent on slavery to continue cheap production of cotton, and they refused to give up their ‘rights’ to own slaves without a fight. Slavery became one of the biggest issues between the North and the South because the North abolished slavery by 1860 while the South refused to give up the only thing that was keeping them stable. When the issue of Western territories came into question, the North didn’t want slavery to extend into the West but the Union therefore created several compromises such as the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Anti-slavery in the North became stronger when abolitionist movements started the Underground Railroad and a book called Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published. The book portrayed slavery very negatively which infuriated both the North and the South. Tensions began to increase between free and slave states as they each wanted to prevail and things became violent. Pro-slave Missourians wanted to rig the elections and raided Lawrence, Kansas which led to a domino effect of revolts from John Brown. These chain of events is called Bloody Kansas. Lincoln stated that the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “was the little lady who started this big
Tariff of Abominations
Western Territories
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
I see the Civil War as a big family dispute divided by different interests, attitudes, and overall lifestyles. The Union was disputing between the Northern and Southern states because of their different views on how they wanted their country to be like. But before the Civil War, there were events that took place that started to pull the Union apart leading to the overall outcome of a national epidemic. These events created a division within the Union, turning brother against brother. John Brown predicted a war by making a statement before his execution …show more content…
Planting and picking crops became the primary work of slaves which supported plantation owners'. So, Southern states became dependent on slavery to continue cheap production of cotton, and they refused to give up their ‘rights’ to own slaves without a fight. Slavery became one of the biggest issues between the North and the South because the North abolished slavery by 1860 while the South refused to give up the only thing that was keeping them stable. When the issue of Western territories came into question, the North didn’t want slavery to extend into the West but the Union therefore created several compromises such as the Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Anti-slavery in the North became stronger when abolitionist movements started the Underground Railroad and a book called Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published. The book portrayed slavery very negatively which infuriated both the North and the South. Tensions began to increase between free and slave states as they each wanted to prevail and things became violent. Pro-slave Missourians wanted to rig the elections and raided Lawrence, Kansas which led to a domino effect of revolts from John Brown. These chain of events is called Bloody Kansas. Lincoln stated that the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, “was the little lady who started this big