In the meantime, the recently established Republican party, whose members were fully against the westward expansion of slavery into the new states, was gaining notability. The straw poll of a Republican, Abraham Lincoln, as President in 1860 sealed the deal. His successful outcome, without a single Southern electoral vote, clearly indicated to the Southern states that they had lost all authority. The Southerners felt excluded from the political system but they turned to the only replacement they believed was left to them: secession, a political decision that led directly to war. The Compromise of 1850 was one of the events that eventually led up to the Civil War. The Compromise of 1850 was the Fugitive Slave Act, the ten-year armistice established by the compromise that only pushed the nation further against slavery, making many in the South fear the end of slavery, and many in the North crave the end of slavery, the very issue which would push the South to secede after Abraham Lincoln is elected president. Another event that eventually led to the Civil War was the Fugitive Slave
In the meantime, the recently established Republican party, whose members were fully against the westward expansion of slavery into the new states, was gaining notability. The straw poll of a Republican, Abraham Lincoln, as President in 1860 sealed the deal. His successful outcome, without a single Southern electoral vote, clearly indicated to the Southern states that they had lost all authority. The Southerners felt excluded from the political system but they turned to the only replacement they believed was left to them: secession, a political decision that led directly to war. The Compromise of 1850 was one of the events that eventually led up to the Civil War. The Compromise of 1850 was the Fugitive Slave Act, the ten-year armistice established by the compromise that only pushed the nation further against slavery, making many in the South fear the end of slavery, and many in the North crave the end of slavery, the very issue which would push the South to secede after Abraham Lincoln is elected president. Another event that eventually led to the Civil War was the Fugitive Slave