ifferent nations and in the end led to a crucial cause to the start of the war. The third and most important cause that finally led up to the war was Secession. But before the actual secession act happened there were other events that led up to this point. Firstly the Nullification crisis which happened in 1832-3 when the state of South Carolina declared the US’s tariffs to be unconstitutional by declaring this, the state put the ‘nullification doctrine’ in to operation. They used this to basically show that if the federal government were to exceed their powers, such as abolish slavery, any or all states could nullify this action, in other words a precedent. Later the controversy was resolved through a compromise which modified the US tariff but the wider issue remained and states such as South Carolina hung onto their right to nullify what ever they felt was unconstitutional. Later their came compromises such as the Compromise of 1850 where newly acquired states such as California were admitted to the union as none slave states but states like Utah and New Mexico, were set up with a choice of slavery or not and this would be decided by the settlers in the area. Then came the Missouri Compromise where slave-owning Missourians applied for statehood this started a problem as it upset the balance of free and slave states which were 11 each at the time. This compromise led to the formation of the Republican Party that was committed to preventing the spread of slavery. Later it was to become clear that the issue of slavery in western expansion of starting new states and settlement had divided North and South and there would be no compromise to settle it, instead civil war would come.After all these hostile compromises and westward expansion in 1860 there was a general election where Abraham Lincoln was elected into power. Lincoln was not an abolitionist but believed that, “All men should have equal rights” an...
