what three events, more than any other, drove the nation toward conflict over the issue of slavery?

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Events that drove the nation towards conflict over the slavery issue in the 1850s

Slavery was the main issue which drove the United States into civil war which began in the late 19th century . There were different reasons which were cited as being the reasons which caused this civil war of the 1850s which included abolition of slave trade and slave rights among others However , there were three main causes which were the root causes of conflicts regarding slavery in the country which

includes emancipation and containment of slavery and state right and sovereignty . The containment of blacks or the control of expansion by the northerners was not a moral issue . On the contrary , the northerners move to stop slavery extension was mainly because they did not want the slaves in areas of settlement (Ransom , pp 13

Unlike the widely held believe that civil war or slavery conflict was largely based on the need to eliminate slave trade in United States there were other underlying causes which fueled the conflict . Ultimate extinction of slaves was not the major cause of conflict in the 1850s but rather the fear that the southerners and the northerners had concerning slavery . During 1850s , anti-slavery campaigns in the northern part of the country had increased and the southerners were afraid that ultimate abolition of slave trade would result to a loss of federal government control to these anti-slavery movements . On the other hand the northerners were also afraid that the...