Some of causes of the Civil War were long-term, and some were short-term.

Long Term Causes include:

• Expansion of slavery into the new territories
• North v.s. South economical and cultural differences
• Missouri Compromise (1820)
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
• Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
• Dred Scott decision
• Growth of Antislavery movement

Short Term Causes include:

• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Breakdown of the party system
• Lincoln President
• South Carolina secedes from the Union

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~K.M. and D.W.