Slavery as a Cause

     Slavery was the main factor leading up to the Civil War. The country was divided by North and South, North was against slavery while the South was all for it. The north and south tended to bump heads frequently, and in order to maintain a peaceful country they had to resolve their disagreements. Thus creating the Compromise of 1850 (an agreement between the north and south to even out the free and slave states). California wanted to enter as a free state but there was no slave state to balance it out, therefore Texas divided in to 5 separate states (Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Texas).