Causes of the Civil War Timeline and Tension Meter!

By Anahi2398

  • The Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri Compromise
    -Slavery will not be allowed above the 36 30 line.
    -Main enters as a free state
    -Missouir enters as a slave state

  • Tariff Of Abominations

    Tariff Of Abominations
    Divides the country.
    North= supports it
    South=opposes it

  • Nat Turner

    Nat Turner
    Salve rebellion scared southern whites.

  • Wilmot Proviso

    Stated all the land gained from Mexico would be free.

  • Compromise of 1850

    California enters as a free state. Salve tarde outlawed in washington D.C. Territories will use popular sovereighty to determine the passage of the fugitive slave law.

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    This was a book written by Harriet Becherstowe. The book described the horrors of slavery. It made abolition of slavery a prioripty.

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    The Kansas Nebraska act gave the people the right to vote for if they wanted the state as a slave state or as a free state.

  • Dred Scott Case

    Scott was a slave who sued for his freedom based on the fact he had lived in a free state.

  • Harper's Ferry

    John Brown had 21 people help him in Virginia where he started a slave uprising and killed and held many citizens hostage.

  • Election of 1860

    This was when Lincoln won presidency he had not won on the popular vote but he had help from the north and south part of the country.