Cause's of Civil War

Wilmont Proviso

Dec 19, 1846

David Wilmont proposed a bill to outlaw slavery in any territory the United States might aquire from the war with mexico. People believed they had no right to prevent them from bring slaves into any territory.
PICTURED: A Wilmont Proviso sign.

Compromise of 1850

Mar 1, 1850

A series of laws intended to settle the major disagreement between free states and slave states. Most people wanted this state to be a free state, but other people did
PICTURED: The map of the compromise.

Fugitive Slave Act

Sep 18, 1850

This law accused figutives can be held without a arrest warrent. Southeners backed up this act because they considered slaves as property. It helped Northerners to recapture slaves.
PICTURED: Explains how the slave act was delt with.

Uncle Toms Cabin

Mar 1, 1852

This novel showed the cruelness and immoratality of slavery. About a escape named Eliza and her baby, across Ohio River.
PICTURED: The cover of the novel.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Mar 1, 1854

1854 law that stablished the territories of kansas and Nebraska and gave their residents the right to decide whether to allow slavery. To get southern support Douglass suggested that popular sovereignty to decide what territories are free and what territories own slave. PICTURED: A map of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Formation of Republican Party

Mar 1, 1854

Some southern whigs joined the decocratic party , others looked for leaders who supported slavery and the union. Northern whigs joined with other rivals and made a republican party.
PICTURED: This picture shows what the republican party was and how it was formed.

Bleeding Kansas

Mar 1, 1855

There were more proslavery than anitslavery in the Kansas Territory. Antislavery settlers rejected the elected government, and settlers on both sides armed theirselves.
PICTURED: A sign of Bleeding Kansas.

Canning of charles Summer

May 1, 1856

Senator Charlies Summer of Massachuetts spoke against the proslavery forces in Kansas, n his speech. Summer insulted A.P Butler as senator from South Carolina.
PICTURED: A proslavery force. But Summer didnt want slavery.

Attack on Harpers Ferry

Oct 15, 1859

A federal arsenal in Virginia captured in 1859 during a antislavery revolt.
PICTURED: Harpers Ferry, antislavery revolt.

Election of 1860

Mar 1, 1860

The election of 1860 turned into two different races, one in the North and one in the South. Lincoln and Douglas were the only ones with support in the North. And, Breckinridge and Bell were the only ones with support in the South. Lincoln beat Douglas and Breckinridge beat Bell. Lincoln won the election.
PICTURED: This shows the percentages of the election of 1860.

Secession

Mar 3, 1865

Southern states will secede or withdraw from the union because Lincoln is president. Northerns considered that the secession of the Southern states was unconsitutional. Northerns use their majority to force the South to abolish slavery.
PICTURED: How the secession is in progress.