Causes of the Civil War Review

Causes of Civil War Review

The Republican Party was created to prevent the introduction of slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico . Stephen Douglas was responsible for the Compromise of 1850 that apparently settled slavery issues However , in 1854 he reopened the slavery question by the highly controversial Kansas-Nebraska Act that allowed the people of the new territories to decide for themselves whether or not to have slavery (which had been prohibited by earlier compromises . HYPERLINK "http /en .wikipedia .org /wiki /Stephen_A ._Douglas http /en .wikipedia .org /wiki /Stephen_A ._Douglas

Rio Grande

River is the river claimed by Mexico as the b between the US and Mexico it is formally called the Rno Bravo del Norte . This river , 1 ,885 miles (3 ,034 km ) long , is the third longest river system in the United States HYPERLINK "http /en .wikipedia .org /wiki /Rio_Grande http /en .wikipedia .org /wiki /Rio_Grande

Abraham Lincoln (February 12 , 1809 - April 15 , 1865 ) was the sixteenth President of the United States . Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year . During his time in office , he contributed to the effort to preserve the United States by leading the defeat of the secessionist Confederate States of America in the American Civil War . He introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery , issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution , which passed Congress before Lincoln 's death and was ratified by the states...