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  1. These are the events leading to the Civil War ranked
  2. 123 in importance.
  3. Event number three, the Missouri compromise.
  4. This created the fugitive Slave Act.
  5. It made it so that people would now receive more
  6. severe punishments for aiding fugitive slaves.
  7. This angered abolitionists.
  8. It also caused some people who are previously aiding fugitive
  9. slaves to start doing extra violence, such as john brown.
  10. It also had some of the effects that angered southerners,
  11. such as cutting off the slave trade.
  12. Essentially, this was a source for a group of problems
  13. leading to the war.
  14. Event number two, the dread scott decision.
  15. This happened when a slave named dread scott wanted to
  16. apply for freedom because he was living in a free
  17. state for some time.
  18. He went to the Supreme Court, but instead they made
  19. a rule that went against what he was going for.
  20. It made it so that all black people were not
  21. citizens, slaves were property so they could be taken river
  22. under their owner and it nullified the Missouri compromise.
  23. This was remarkable because the case was to gain freedom,
  24. but it ended up removing even more of it.
  25. This made abolitionists furious.
  26. It also made the start political contrast even larger and
  27. eventually encouraged Abraham Lincoln to be president among his among
  28. his voters.
  29. Finally, number one, the 18 60 election.
  30. This was definitely the most important event leading up to
  31. the civil war Lincoln from the Republican Party, a party
  32. based on anti slavery beliefs, was elected in 18 60.
  33. This immediately caused some southern states to secede and become
  34. a confederacy, mainly out of fear.
  35. This was the event that immediately caused the conflict to
  36. grow to the point of no return.
  37. Thank you.