37a - rank and analyze the importance of key issues and events that led to the Civil War including slavery, states rights, nullification, Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Georgia Platform, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott case, and election of 1860
In the beginning of the civil war era the north lowered the slavery and the slaves had more freedom in the north while in the South slavery became part of its economy. Then President Lincoln got elected as president getting all of the electoral votes except for one of the countries in the south. Then after he was elected he created the Emancipation Proclamation with freed slaves at the time of rebellion but couldn't because he did not have the power to do that.
States rights was one of the causes of the Civil War. States rights is the struggle of political power. They created the Missouri Compromise of 1820. This had a lot to do with slavery, in fact, the south thought that if they had equal amount of slave states as non-slave states(north) then the two nations had a even representation.
The nullification crisis occurred during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. This happened because Jackson had issued the Proclamation with disputed a states right to nullify a federal law. After Jackson issued the Proclamation the government issued a Forced act which basically states that the army can use force on anyone that refuses to pay tariffs(taxes).
Tension began to fill the air between slave and non-slave states. To keep the peace the government passed a two part compromise which granted the wishes of Missouri and Maine. It was the congress way of trying to keep away of sectionalism. This compromise upset some of the southerners because it stated that.
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