Causes Of The American Civil W

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all sections of the country. Finally, there was the economic distress factor, of both foreign and domestic roots, that included everything from tariffs to the financial crash of 1857. These in turn caused sectional disputes over the use of the federal government’s public lands.
In early 1848, when gold was discovered in California, “a horde of adventurers poured into the valleys.” (Bailey, 400). “Free-soilers” and “slaveryites” argued over the proposed issue of slavery in the territories, and thus, whether the terrain itself was suitable for a slave economy. In Congress on August 8, 1846, Pennsylvania Representative David Wilmot moved an amendment: “that, as an express and fundamental condition of the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico…neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory,” (CG, 1217) releasing the “pent-up ire” of northern Democrats, ...

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of the Missouri Compromise as an intolerable breach of faith…would henceforth resist to the last trench all future southern demands for slave territory.” (Bailey, 415). However, when pioneers started settling in Kansas, groups of free-soilers, like the New England Emigrant Aid Company, came as well, angering southerners because “the northern ‘Nebrascals,’ allegedly by foul means, were now apparently trying to ‘abolitionize’ both Kansas and Nebraska.” (Bailey, 421).
In 1857, the slavery supporters drew up the Lecompton Constitution, supported by President James Buchanan, not for the people of Kansas to vote for, but to accept and vote on ...

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