on slave holding by the New England Quakers. The Fugitive Slave Law in 1793 denied free blacks the legal protections that the Bill of Rights guaranteed them as citizens. This new law brought conflict such as Gabriel’s Rebellion and Fries Rebellion in Pennsylvania. Other events that caused conflict to rise was between 1830-1860, slaveholders gained an increasing proportion of the South’s wealth while declining as a proportion of its white population. Then in the 1858, the governor of Florida proposed a law guaranteeing to each white person the ownership of at least one slave. In 1833, the American Anti-Slavery Society was founded. Another big source of conflict that led to the Civil War was popular sovereignty. At first it seemed liked a “..practical solution to slavery in the territories, foundered in Kansas amid civil strife and turmoil over the Lexompton constitution. As support for popular sovereignty withered, sentiment for free soil gained ground in the North. In the south the Dred Scott decision provided judicial support for the position that Congress had to protect slavery in whatever territories it appeared.”Then once the Civil War broke out, the government started to exercise powers that were doubted. The government started to pass acts such as the Homestead Act, Legal tender Act, Pacific Railroad Act, Morrill Land Grant Act, First and Second Confiscation Act, and the National Bank Act. After the Civil War ended there a was an ideal of a “more perfect Union." The government abolished slavery, asserted power over private property and imposed an income tax.The states that seceded came back to the Union. In 1870 the last four states were readmitted. Also during this time people and ideas influenced the fifteenth and fourteenth article to be ratified. *Economic Needs and InterestsIn the North the economics was based on farmers and factory workers and in the south the economics was based o...
