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In the views of many people the firing on fort sumter was not the only reason as to why we were carried in to the civil war. Yes the firing on fort sumet in 1861 was the breaking point of our nation to go to war, but there was many events that lead to the civil war. The major events leading to the civil war seemed to be caused because of slavery .Missouri compromise of 1820,Uncle toms cabin in 1852, and Dred scott case in 1857, and many more help build up tension through out all of the years untill there was a point in history were we felt it was strongly needed to go to war. It started to become a problem that needed to be settled in 1820 with the Missouri compromise. in 1820 they came up with the 36 30 line. this line helped separate slavery from free. above the 36 30 line was free territory, and below the 36 30 the territory was slave. this helped separate the differences between the two territory's and allowed them a choice. This was a good compromise as well as a bad compromise. The good out of it is that it allowed people to sum what have a say in where they were. this also allowed the slaves to escape to a safe place where no one could take them back to the plants unless they were under the 36 30 line. As the years went on the eyes of the north and other views were opening up to the horrors of the slavery. Uncle Tom's cabin was then published and opened the eyes of many people to the disgust's of slavery and how cruel the slaves were actually being treated. Uncle Tom's cabin was sold world wide. Tom was a real slave that got sold in an auction to a very cruel man. Tom had all of his goods and treasures stolen away from him. women slaves were used in slavery for many reasons even as far as using them for their own sexual pleasures. Uncle Tom's cabin made a numerous amount of people angry. after they read this it started to cause people to turn there back on slavery and become antislavery. The north was getting mad at the south especially when they heard that Simon a slave owner told his slave Tom that he could not believe in god and that he was his god. this belittled god and infuriated the north. the north was still in the second Great awakening. The south claimed all of the rumors and the book a lie. Through all of the lie's and abuse to the slaves there was yet another cruel way in the south. The Dred Scott case of 1857, this was on of the first times where you start to see the defense of slavery. Dred Scott was a slave, his owner died and he was sold to another slave owner who set him free. This sounds like a miracle and a great story until he found out that he would have to fight for his freedom. The supreme court did not think that he should be allowed to be free. many people fought over this and how it was the owners right to let his slaves free if he wanted, but others did not feel the same way about it. They even went as far as to say that the Missouri compromise is unconstitutional, but they could not do any thing about that any more. Also the Missouri compromise was barely there. in the end Dred Scott had to go back to his owner and was denied his right to freedom. through all you have read you can discover your self that the firing on fort sumet in 1861 was not the first time we had a breaking point in our nation. Slavery was a huge issue that could have been avoided and then their wouldn't have been a civil war. that is how important the subject and issuse of slavery were to the civil war. Almost all of the conflicts evolved around slavery. With out slavery there would be no conflicts which would have saved many lives in the civil war.