What event started “Bleeding Kansas”? Use the chart and your knowledge of social studies to answer the following question. Causes of the Civil War Long-term causes: - Sectional economic and cultural differences - Debate over expansion of slavery into the territories - Political compromises failed to ease sectional differences and resolve questions of expanding slavery · Missouri Compromise (1820) · Compromise of 1850 · Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) - Laws increased sectional tension · Fugitive Slave Act (1850) · Dred Scott decision · Tariff policy - Growth of the anti-slavery movement - Uncle Tom’s Cabin Short-term causes: - Kansas-Nebraska Act splits political parties - Breakdown of the party system - Lincoln elected president - South Carolina secedes

A. Preston Brooks beat Charles Sumner unconscious with a cane.B. John Brown carried out midnight executions of pro-slavery settlers.C. Charles Sumner delivered a speech called “The Crime Against Kansas.”D. Border ruffians raided the anti-slavery town of Lawrence, Kansas.