Question

Main question is what events MOST contributed to the start of the Civil War?

POSSIBLE EVENTS TO DISCUSS:
Wilmot Proviso
The Compromise of 1850
The Fugitive Slave Law—1850
Uncle Tom’s Cabin—Harriet Beecher Stowe
Kansas Nebraska Act 1854
Bleeding Kansas
Charles Sumner Beating—Preston Brooks
Nativism and the Know Nothings
The New Republican Party Forms
The Dred Scott Decision 1857
Lincoln Douglas Debates
Harpers Ferry Incident
Election of 1860 - Lincoln Elected President
Southern Secession—the Confederacy

Answer 1

Compromise of 1850.

Step-by-step explanation:

The immediate result of the Compromise of 1850 was to avert the threat of dissolution of the United States. The secession of the South and creation of the Confederacy was postponed for a decade. The concept of popular sovereignty was soon to result in a proxy civil war in the Kansas Territory.