The Trigger Events Of The Civil War

Politics had the biggest impact of all the PEGS on the road to Civil War. To start off, In Trigger Events of the Civil War it states,”The case eventually rose to the level of the Supreme Court, where the justices found that, as a slave, Dred Scott was a piece of property that had none of the legal rights to recognitions afforded to a human being.”This means that, Dred Scott couldn’t get freedom even though he was in free land where slavery was illegal but he was still a slave. In addition, in Lincoln, Abraham “House divided speech” it states, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” This means, we as a nation and our Government cannot handle both slave and free. Lastly, in the “Abraham Lincoln” it shows that Lincoln had 59% of all the Electoral votes or 180 and Lincoln also had 405 of the Popular vote which is 1,866,452. This means he was winning by so much and had more states than Breckenridge. In conclusion, Politics had the biggest impact on road to the civil war.
To begin with, in “South Carolina Declaration of Secession” it states, “Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free”. This means, America could not handle both slave and free because it was very hard to. If we were to keep having slavery we would not be the United States of America because we would be half slave and half free states. To conclude, this is why politics had the biggest impact on reaching the Civil