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The Decline of the Nation

By nissakaminski

  • Emmigrate Aid Society

    Emmigrate Aid Society
    An anti-slavery group did this by collection over a thousand New Englanders into Kansas to help their votes for no slavery. Pro-slavery people did this too by sneaking into Kansas to vote.
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    The Decline of the Nation

  • Violence in Kansas

    Violence in Kansas
    The slavery issues made a lot of tension in Kansas.

  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas
    John Brown led a small group to kill 5 pro-slavery advocates because he thought slavery was very wrong. After this a lot of raids began...They called this Bleeding Kansas

  • James Buchanan becomes president.

    James Buchanan becomes president.

  • The Dred Scott Case

    The Dred Scott Case
    This was a slave that filed a lawsuit agaisnt his master. He lost, because they said he had no right to sew his master because he wasn't a US citizen.

  • Lincoln- Douglas Debate

    Lincoln- Douglas Debate
    These two had a debate on the night before the Civil War because they were both running for US Senate seat of Illisnos.

  • The Election of 1860

    The Election of 1860
    Abarham Lincoln won.

  • States that left he Union

    South Carolina, Mississippi, Texas, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Lousianna.

  • The Civil War Begins

    The Civil War Begins

  • The first shots were fired.