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Missouri Compromise
With the addition to the new states from the Missouri compromise there were huge arguments about whether it should be slave or free states. This would rise tension between North and South. -
Nat Turner's rebellion
Nat Turner had incited many riots and many other things in plantations causing the South slave owners to be very fed up with this and led to the Civil War. -
Wilmot Proviso
After the Mexican AMerican war the new territory was disputed whether it is going to be slave states or free states. The Wilmot Proviso had said that all of these new lands should be free, this would have irritated the South to the point of war at that moment. -
Compromise of 1850
In this the new states would have to follow fugitive slave laws and California would be free and fugitive slave laws would be even tighter and more strict. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beechers story of what life was like as a slave through many different views showed Americans how these people were being treated. This made people in the North dislike slavery and want it out of the South too, which caused much discussion and led to war between the two areas. -
Bleeding Kansas
Through the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 many of the new states such as Kansas would have the right to vote for whether or not they had wanted slavery in their state. Through this there were many different opinions on what the states should do which caused bloodshed of many and pushed forward. -
Dred Scott v Sanford
This had shown that slaves were permanent property of their owner even if they were in a free state, this had angered many people as it showed that even free states had slavery in it. This angered many Northerners and abolitionists. -
John Brown's Raid
John Brown had led a battle on a Southern base to capture weapons and give them to slaves to get away from their plantation this enraged the South and led to war. -
Abraham Lincoln's Election
The South did not like Abraham Lincoln, because he was a republican who was antislavery. This caused South Carolina to succeed from the Union and the rest follow in 1861. -
Battle of Fort Sumter
Southern warships and troops had engaged combat on a Union base completely destroying it and killing many men. This had led to full on combat and is considered one of the first battles of the Civil War.
