American civil war

Catalysts of the Civil War Timeline

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  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    It was about pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in the United States. 36/30 was part of it, the north part of the untided states were free states and all the ones in the south were slave state, not including california.
  • Free Soil Party

    Free Soil Party
    Its main purpose was opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories. They opposed slavery in the new territories and sometimes worked to remove laws that discriminated against freed African Americans in states like Ohio. The date isn't correct, no knowlegde over the actual formation date. Year is correct
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    Day not correct
    The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills passed in the United States:
    • Texas surrendered its claim to New Mexico
    • California's application for admission as a free state with its current boundaries was approved.
    • the new New Mexico Territory and Utah Territory could decide in the future to become slave states
    • Fugitive Slave Act, the enforcement of which the northern people decide. Public Opinion.
    • The slave trade was banned in Washington D.C.
  • Harriet Tubman and the Underground railroad

    Harriet Tubman and the Underground railroad
    The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves to escape. The former slave who helped with it all was harriet Tubman. Day not correct
  • Fugitive Slave act

    Fugitive Slave act
    This act was passed by the United States Congress as part of the Compromise of 1850. It said all runaway slaves were, when captured to be returned to their masters
  • Kansas Nebraska Act

    Kansas Nebraska Act
    This act allowed settlers to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state's borders.
  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas
    The reason its called Bleeding Kansas was because of the violence that occured in Kansas. whether the territory would be free or slave
  • Dred Scott v. Sandford

    Dred Scott v. Sandford
    Was about a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before he had moved back into the slave state of missouri which led to the case that african american people were not created as equal because of the way they are treated
  • The election of 1860

    The election of 1860
    The election was in the North was between Lincoln and Douglas and in the end Lincoln had won, and once he did he stopped slavery. That was the whole point he ran for president the other candidates weren't up to the no slave act.
  • The Beginning of the Civil War

    The Beginning of the Civil War
    This was between the United States "Union" or "North" and several Southern slave states that had declared and formed the Confederate States "Confederacy" or "South". Because of its issue with slavery.