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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 Stephen Douglas of Illinois, the Kansas-Nebraska Act essentially repealed the line imposed by the Missouri Compromise.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.
The Civil War causes dates back to the early nation history. Some of the causes were: economic and social differences between the north and south, states versus federal rights â¦, the fight between slave and non-slave state proponents and the growth of the abolition movement.