Civil war soldiers

APUSH Civil War Research Paper

By eghbuny

  • Land boom begins

  • Mexican War upsets the issue of slavery

  • Wilmot Proviso defeated

  • Free-Soil Movement

  • Election of Taylor brings out serious slavery questions

  • California proclaimed a free state

  • California Gold Rush

  • Tensions abate until 1854

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • Fugitive Slave Act passed

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin is published

  • Frederick Douglass gives speech

  • Republican Party is formed

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act passed

  • The Know-Nothings rise on political stage

  • Anti-slavery settlers move to Kansas, and "bloody Kansas" begins

  • Republicans gain support because of bleeding Kansas and their position of anti-slavery

  • Republicans win their first election w/John Fremont

  • Democrats and Republicans emerge as the only 2 parties

  • Supreme Court enters debate on slavery

  • The issue of Kansas being free or slave

  • Dred Scott v. Sandford

  • Lincoln-Douglas debate

  • John Brown raids Harper's Ferry

  • The presidential election occurs

  • South Carolina sucedes

  • The Crittenden Compromise

  • Jefferson Davis is elected president on the Confederacy

  • 7 states had suceded

  • Abraham Lincoln Inaugurated

  • The suceded states present a Constitution

  • The Civil War Begins

  • Democrats try to regain control of Congress to turn the tide of the war

  • Surrender at Appomattox Crt. House- End of War

  • The 13th Amendment is ratified