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The cause of the Civil War is not a definite one but many points can help to prove its cause. One major cause is the Missouri Compromise when they started with the 36' 30 line.

The Missouri Compromise of 1820 started this War. It stated that a line, known as the 36' 30 would determine where slave states and free states may lie. South of this line would become slave and North was free. This indirectly was seperating the North from the South in a way of creating their differences in beliefs. Leading to many other compromises this is the first cause of the what would lead to the Civil War.

After the Missouri Compromise, the 1850 Compromise became an important idea. It allowed the state of California to enter as a free state, causing the North to gain an advantage in the Senate, while the South was granted the Fugitive Slave Law, a law in which it required citizens to turn in any slaves. With the Fugitive Slave Law now in action it created and even greater rift between the North and South because the North felt it violated their rights of having their slave free territory. They felt they should not have to deal with the slaves nor capture them. The law violated the bringing of slaves above the 36' 30 line.

The Dred Scott Case of 1857 was a perfect example of bringing slaves above the 36' 30 line of the Missouri Compromise. They declared Dred Scott wrong in saying he was free because even though Scott was brought to the North with his master, the Supreme Court said that was wrong for no slave could be a citizen of the U.S. With this The Missouri Compromise, was declared unconstitutional in saying no compromise can create a line in which creates a boundary for slaves.

After all these contesions built between the North and South, they were on their last string with each other. With the election of 1860, the South had threatened that if Lincoln wins they would secede from the Union. With Lincoln's victory, the South kept their word and in April of 1860, South Carolina, was the first stated to secede. Following this came Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Lousiana, and Texas. These states created what was known as the Confederate States of America. The main reason for the secession of these 7 states was because they felt their rights of bing a slaveholder and the growing power of the Republicans were threatening them. Both sides in thinking they were right in, the North thinking they were right with they could make the rules for the Nation, while the South thought they were in the right were for saying they had the right to seceed.

The Civil War was a result of many mishaps in our early government including the Missouri Compromise, The Compromise of 1850, The Dred Scott Case, and finally resulting in the Seccesion of the Southern States.