US Civil War

with the states in the lower south forming a new government in Montgomery, Alabama, some people continued to seek compromise. Senator Jonh J. Critten of Kentucky develop a comsenator Jonh J. Crittenden of Kentucky develop a compromise. The Crittenden plan was presented to congress in late february 1861, but it did not pass.

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(novanet) most crops were tended with slave labor

Slavery was an issue that contributed to the event of Bleeding Kansas. Bleeding Kansas was also known as the Bloody Kansas war.

it required private citizens to assist in the search for runaway slaves

Some northern states used personal liberty laws to nullify the figitive slave Act, written to help the south.

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Several events contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War. Many people consider the 1861 battle of Fort Sumter to be the direct trigger.

One reason that the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin infuriated people in the South was that southerners felt that it was an inaccurate depiction of Southern life (Stowe had never been to a Southern plantation).

During that time Taney led the Supreme Court, which declared slaves to be property.