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A 4 page discussion of the many events and circumstances which combined to ultimately cause the U.S. Civil War. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 set the stage for the war but subsequent events such as the war with Mexico of 1846-1848, the Secession Crisis of November 1860-April 1861, the annexation of Texas, the Wilmot proviso, expansionism, the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and the Presidential election of 1860 were critical in determining the direction that this country would ultimately take. Bibliography lists sources.
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Numerous events led up to the dissolution of the Union during the United States Civil War. While many think these events were related to the
issue of slavery alone, in reality they were considerably more complex. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 (an ordinance more formally known as "An Ordinance for the Government of the
Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio"), for example, established government in that region. The Ordinance was extremely important in that it established the precedents for
westward expansion, an important component of which were the terms under new states could be admitted to the Union. An equally important component of the Ordinance was that it
represented the first regulation on slavery. In effect this ordinance established the Ohio River as that critical geographic point of separation between free and slave territory in the region
between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River. It set in motion the critical balance between free and slave states that would ultimately result in the Civil War.
That balance would be affected by numerous other issues, however, as time progressed. The Northwest Ordinance was one of the earliest reflections of
the importance of the issue of slavery in this nation. There were many more reflections, however. Some contend, in fact, that the Civil War resulted from numerous factors
which had started to tear at the very soul of the young nation many years before the actual war erupted. Two of these factors were the war with Mexico
of 1846-1848 and the Secession Crisis of November 1860-April 1861 (McPherson, 1988). Each of these larger factors encompassed many subcomponents such as the annexation of Texas, the Wilmot proviso,
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