Mayor Events Before The Civil War

 1.) Around 1858 the U.S. was divided geographically into north and south. The south being agricultural and the north being industrial.  They both had different religions, climates, and they believed in different opinions and things.
 2.) The country was so divided by the issue of slavery, California was only accepted by making the compromise of 1858.  There was an argument about this and if the north and south didnt agree on the compromise then California wouldnt be able to become a state so it had to be through popular soverinty.
 3.)Around this time many southern states were seriously considering leaving the union.
 4.) Many people from the north hated slavery, because they thought its was immoral. People that help slaves to freedom were called abolitionists. These people risk there lives because they wanted slavey abalished.
 5.) when Uncle Toms Cabin was published, the south took it as an attack on them. The south thought it was an attack on them on how they work things. It increased the north to increase protests against the fugitive slave act. 
  6.) Two politicians became famous for their slavery debates, they were Abraham Lincoln who thought slavery was immoral, and Stephen Douglas who believed in popular sovereignty.
 7.) On December 20, 1860 the south seceded from the union and the civil war would begin.