Causes of the Civil War and its short and long term effects

Historic Significance of Fugitive Slave Act 1850

- required that anyone who caught a salve would have to turn them back in

Historical Significance of Crittenden's Compromise 1861

- rejected by republicans - South States created confederacy

Historical Significance of Lincoln's Election 1860

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Long Term Effects of Lincoln's Election 1860

- 13th amendment - reconstruction may have caused a social divide between the North and the South which still lasts today

Long Term Effects of Missouri Compromise 1850

- California was admitted - Unconstitutionality

Historical Significance of Missouri Compromise 1820

- Compromise that temporarily settled the disputes between the free and slaves states - admitted Missouri was a slave state and Maine as a free state - put in the compromise line (36 30')

Historical Significance of Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo 1848

- Created at the end of the Mexican American War - helped to solve problems concerning whether the new lands would be slave of free

Short Term effects of Crittenden's Compromise 1861

- Forced unity of North and South - KKK - racism

Long Term Effects of John Brown and Harpers Ferry 1859

- KKK - tension between the North and South still exists

Long Term effects of Missouri Compromise 1820

- Missouri and Maine - Start to the prohibition of slavery

Short Term Effects of Dred Scott 1857

- Northern anger - contributed to the creation of the emancipation - tensions over slavery

Short Term Effects of John Brown and Harpers Ferry 1859

- South felt antagonized - Formed distrust

Short Term Effects of Lincoln's Election 1860

- South session - emancipation proclamation

Short Term Effects of Kansas Nebraska Act 1854

- bleeding Kansas - caused more sectionalism - shattered the Whig Party

Short Term Effects of Missouri Compromise 1850

- boundary dispute between New Mexico and Texas - kept balance between the states - stalled out the civil war

Long Term Effects of Kansas Nebraska act 1854

- created 2 new states Nebraska and Kansas - creating of Republican Party (note: republican party has changed... used to have the majority of black votes but now it doesn't due to increase in republican party conservative values in the 1960s.)

Long Term Effects of Fugitive Slave Act 1850

- injustices continued and may have contributed to the rise of BLM and Black Panther - some escaped slaves went to Canada - promoted racism

Short term effects of the South Carolina Nullification Crisis 1830

- lit the flame for secession - caused 5 states to secede from Union - temporarily resolved issue of tariffs

Long Term effects of the South Carolina Nullification Crisis 1830

- people of state have authority over state action - established supremacy of fed. gov over state gov

Historical Significance of Kansas Nebraska Act 1854

- proposal to repeal the antislavery provision of the Missouri Compromise and would divide Nebraska territory into Kansas and Nebraska

Short Term effects of Missouri Compromise 1820

- slavery was banned above the compromise line - Missouri and Maine were admitted - settled disputes between free and slave states

Long Term Effects of Dred Scott 1857

- social injustice in court which we still see today - 14th amendment

Short Term Effects of Fugitive Slave Act 1850

- underground railroad - anger from the North - underground railroad took away labor from the South