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Causes of the Civil War: Bleeding Kansas. Proposed by Sen. Stephen Douglas of Illinois, the Kansas-Nebraska Act essentially repealed the line imposed by the Missouri Compromise. Douglas, an ardent believer in grassroots democracy, felt that all the territories should be subject to popular sovereignty.
A war that almost no one really wanted. What caused the Civil War is not a story that ended in 1861.The Civil War forever changed the balance of powers among the federal government, the states, and the individual.A balance that we continually strive to adjust even today, even with slavery out of the picture. war that almost no one really wanted. What caused the Civil War is not a story that ended in 1861.The Civil War forever changed the balance of powers among the federal government, the states, and the individual. A balance that we continually strive to adjust even today, even with slavery out of the picture.