Directions: Please answer the following question by 5-7 sentences and using 2-4 direct examples from the bubble map and the information from the previous steps. Please make sure your responses are in your own words
Interpreting your work from the prior steps, which of the events can you infer was the most consequential in causing the Civil War and why?
Bubble map:
The year that Congress decided to consider Missouri's application to join the Union as a
slave state, a crisis immediately erupted.
The northerners were determined to not let Missouri become a slave state
Senator Henry Clay made a proposal, which
he would allow to let Missouri become a slave state and Maine as a free state
Kept the numbers of slave states and free
states equal.
Source A:
Dred Scott was an enslaved man, he was trying to sue John Sanford because since he lived in a free territory, he had become a free man.
The court ruled that since Scott was an enslaved person, he could not file a lawsuit. Which also meant because he was an enslaved person, he wasn't a citizen.
According to the court, Congress didn't have the power to outlaw slavery in any territory. This means that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
In the North, a lot of people held a meeting to condemn the ruling. While in the South, they hoped that slavery would eventually die out if it were restricted to the South.
Source B:
Brown gained control over the arsenal. But no slave uprising took place. Instead, troops under the command of Robert E. Lee killed ten raiders and captured Brown.
Brown did nothing further to encourage a slave revolt. At his trail, Brown seemed pretty sane. He sat quietly at the trial as he was guilty of murder and treason, or actions against one's country.
To the white southerners, the northerners response to Brown's death was ridiculous. A lot of the southerners were convinced that the North wanted to destroy slavery and the South along with it
Source C:
Many Northern states refused to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act. A lot of states have passed personal liberty laws that make it harder to bring back alleged fugitives. Those states had breached their obligations to them under the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln's election as president was seen as a direct threat to the institution of slavery by South Carolina and other Southern states. They believed that Lincoln and his administration would work towards banning slavery, and this led to their decision to secede from the Union.
Based on the primary source reading, South Carolina was seceding from the Union because of the election of Abraham Lincoln. They believed that Lincoln's anti-slavery stance and his policies would threaten the institution of slavery.