Political
Economic
Social
Trigger
- Fugitive Slave Act
- The Compromise of 1850
- Nebraska-Kansas Act & Bleeding Kansas
- Dred Scott Decision
- John Brown's attack on the Armory at Harper's Ferry
- The North's Liberty Laws and The South's Fugitive Slave Act
- Increased Sectionalism
Economic
- Job competition with Immigrants
- Differing Economies-Industry & Capitol in the North and Labor & Agriculture in the South
Social
- The North and South had differing views on the morality of slavery
- Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe actually changed Great Britain's view on slavery (changing to want it abolished)
Trigger
- The Election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States in 1860 was the trigger for the start of the Clvil War.