Causes of the Civil War Timeline and Tension Meter

The Missouri Compromise

Mar 3, 1820

--slavery will not be allowed above the 36 30 line
--Maine enters as a free state
--Missouri enters as a slave state

Tariff of abominations

Apr 22, 1828

tariff of Abominations divides the country.
The North supports it and the South opposes it.

Compromise of 1850

Mar 25, 1850

1.California enters as a free state.
2.slave trade outlawed in Washington D.C.
3.Terretories will use popular sovereignty to determine slave status.
4. passage of the fugitive slave law

Republican Party created

Jun 18, 1854

official platform was to stop the expansion of slavery.

Bleeding Kansas

Sep 16, 1856

mini civil war in Kansas over the slavery debate- Violence broke out between the two side- would Kansas be a free state?

Dred Scott Case

Mar 6, 1857

the supreme court ruled that scott was not a citizen and could not be free and also Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

Lincoln- Douglas Debates

Aug 21, 1858

debates for the Illinois Senate seat between Abraham Lincln & Stephen Douglas.
lincoln- expressed his belief that the nation could not exist as half free & half slave
Douglas- supported popular soverignty as a method to determining slavery.

Harper's Ferry

Oct 16, 1859

abolitionist John Brown led a raid on a fedral arsenal in Virginia in an attempt to arm slaves and rebel. his raid failed and he was executed for treason.
the north declared Brown a hero and the South used the raid as an attack on republicans.

election of 1860

Mar 4, 1860

republican: Lincoln
Democrats: split into 2 parties (breckenridge and douglas)
Constitutional party: Bell
Lincoln wins !!

Fort Sumter

Dec 20, 1861

!st official battle of the civil war
the confederate troops forced the union surrender of the fort in charleston SC