Not the immediate cause - it had been a long-running debate.
The immediate cause was Lincoln's election victory on a ticket of no new slave-states.
An immediate result of the US Civil War was the abolition of slavery with the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution in 1865. This amendment legally ended slavery and involuntary servitude throughout the United States.
The event that determined the status of slavery during the 1850s was the Wilmot Proviso. It was also a major cause of the Civil War.
Well slavery was a big part of the southern secession.
The Immediate Cause was Beauregard firing on Fort Sumter. The Intermediate Cause was the secession of the Confederate States. The Ultimate Cause was Slavery.
The sides in the American Civil War were fighting about the issue of slavery and its expansion into new territories. The Northern states, known as the Union, wanted to abolish slavery and preserve the United States as one nation. The Southern states, known as the Confederacy, wanted to protect their right to own slaves and establish an independent nation.
Only in the remote sense that the Civil War was a result of aquiring land from Mexico in the Mexican War, forcing Congress to deal with the expansion of slavery nto the new territories, but there was no immediate causation.
The issue of slavery was a contentious one in the territories during the mid-19th century. The question of whether slavery should be allowed or prohibited in the territories was a central debate leading up to the Civil War. Ultimately, the issue was settled through legislation such as the Missouri Compromise and the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which aimed to address the spread of slavery into new territories.
Former Mexican territories were supposed to ban slavery, except Texas. This was defined ion the Wilmot Proviso (1846). However, it was not enforced, and caused further divisions between pro-slavery states and the North. It resulted in the American Civil War (1861-1865).
An immediate result of the US Civil War was the abolition of slavery with the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution in 1865. This amendment legally ended slavery and involuntary servitude throughout the United States.
The event that determined the status of slavery during the 1850s was the Wilmot Proviso. It was also a major cause of the Civil War.
Well slavery was a big part of the southern secession.
The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states
The Wilmot Proviso, which declared that slavery should not be allowed in any of the new territories acquired from Mexico.
The Mexican-War reignited the slavery question, as many of the acquired lands from Mexico became pro-slavery states territories. For example, Texas and New Mexico became pro-slavery while California and Utah didn't. Ultimately, this led to the American Civil War.
The Mason-Dixon Line, located at approximately 39 degrees latitude, became the northern boundary of slavery and its territories in pre-Civil War America. This line separated free states in the North from slave states in the South.
The Dred Scott v. Sandford decision ruled that African Americans, whether free or enslaved, did not have rights as citizens, and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories. This decision further polarized the nation on the issue of slavery and heightened tensions leading up to the Civil War.
In the beginning they didnt mind but further and further closer to the Civil war they saw it as immoral. Especially when the south wanted to extend slavery to the new western territories that the U.S gained from Mexico.