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There are a number of reasons why the Civil War took place in history, if you were to ask most people why they would most likely say something like " The civil war was fought to end slavery across America" and they would be right, but the civil war is like an iceberg meaning that you're only know what's on the surface of the but you haven't seen what's hidden underneath the water. And the civil war is one massive iceberg underneath the water. There are a lot of issues that contributed to the war between the North and South, but what made both groups reach a boiling point was the westward expansion of America. In this essay I'm going to focus on a few topics and events surrounding the Civil War like the the act of Sectionalism, Western Expansion …show more content…

It increased steadily in 1800–1850 as the North industrialized, urbanized and built prosperous factories, while the Deep South concentrated on plantation agriculture based on slave labor, together with subsistence farming for poor whites who owned no slaves. Southerners defended slavery in part by claiming that Northern factory workers toiled under worse conditions and were not cared for by their employers. Also, I will be explaining what the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was. In January 1854, Senator Stephen Douglas introduced a bill that divided the land west of Missouri into two territories, Kansas and Nebraska. He argued for popular sovereignty, which would allow the settlers of the new territories to decide if slavery would be legal there. Antislavery supporters were outraged because, under the terms of the Missouri Compromise of 1820, slavery would have been outlawed in both …show more content…

Some believe that he was a extremist or a terrorist to this country, others celebrate him and ghis actions to abolish slavery in the U.S. in the conflicts in Kansas, John Brown and his children laed attacks on pro-slavery citizens in Kansas . he would use the word of god to justify his actions to everyone, he became a martyr to northern abolitionists and used his growing reputation to create a small militia By 1858 he had a small army of men who were down for his cause , and their sole purpose was to create a rebellion among the slaves . So in 1859, he and his men attacked the federal armory in hopes of supplying the slaves with weapons to help aid in their rebellion.Brown was captured during the raid and later hanged, but not before becoming an anti-slavery icon. In 1855, after assisting the escape of several slaves, Brown and his five sons moved to Kansas just after that territory had been opened for the possible expansion of slavery by the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Joining the struggle there between proslavery and Free-Soil settlers, Brown appointed himself “captain” of the antislavery forces on Osawatomie Creek. (The struggle arose out of a long-standing disagreement between North and South over slavery’s expansion that had its roots in the framing of the Constitution.) When proslavery forces sacked the “free state” town of

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