Conflicts arose and reached its climax in 1850 regarding the concept of holding people as slaves in the territories that were being formed. In the years that preceded the Civil war the United States was constantly involved with various issues relating to slavery and the role that the federal government played in comparison to the state rights. The compromise of 1850 included nearly five legislative enactments that were actually passed by the U. S Congress d

Though it appeared to be thorough, this sovereignty was the cause of a mini civil war in Kansas, where the abolitionist and the slaveholders had arguments over the question of slavery and as to which of these individuals would run the state. In 1856, in Pottawatomie, the Missouri pro-slavery activist attacked a free soil camp and burnt it down. This Incongruity turned violent here, where both parties need to be fairly blamed. By a ballot system of the Southern individuals, an act was passed that allowed slavery to be practiced though the number of free soldiers was nearly three to one in comparison with the ones for slavery. This event was then named, ‘Bleeding Kansas’. But when Anthony Bums, a runaway slave, was returned to his owner at a very high price of nearly 14,000 to 100,000 dollars many Northerners did not agree to this law. The event helped to bed conservationist unionist and in place of them we could see abolitionist who had only one thought in their mind that of removing slavery.’ This brings to realization the increasing tension during such times that actual convert normal docile individuals into epitomized humans with a statement to make. (McPherson, 2000)

When Lincoln first encouraged the North to fight against the South, his main motive was not to end slavery but to reunite the nation. Between 1860 and 1861 eleven states of the South broke away from the Union and formed the ‘Confederacy’. The South stopped having contacts with the North because they thought that Lincoln would influence their slaves and free them. These slaves farmed for these people of the South in turn letting the whites to join the army. This did not help the North in any way because the South army was stronger. Lincoln had the same opinion about slavery like most of the abolitionist. In the year 1862, the congress passed a law that stated that all slaves who came to the North would be treated as allies. Because of this all the slaves who were in the army formerly rejoined the army. Nearly 500,000 ran away and at least 200,000 of them joined the Union Army. (McPherson, 2000)

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