Civil War

By <3purple

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act
    http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/kansas.htm
    It was passed by the U.S. Congress. That allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery. It infuriated many people in the North who considered the Missouri Compromise to be a long-standing binding agreement. In the South it was strongly supported.
    http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/kansas.htm

  • Dread Scott Decision

    Dread Scott Decision
    http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=334
    The Chief Justice Roger B. Taney delivered Supreme Court's decision against Dred Scott. He was a slave who maintained & he had been emancipated. As a result of having him live with his master in the free state of Illinois. Also in federal territory where slavery wasn't allowed by the Missouri Compromise.

  • Lincoln vs. Douglas

    Lincoln vs. Douglas
    http://www.ushistory.org/us/32b.asp
    Debates between Douglas and Lincoln were held during the 1858 campaign for a US Senate seat from Illinois. The debates were held at 7 sites throughout Illinois. They were in each of the 7 Congressional Districts. Douglas, was the incumbent Senator. Lincoln was a relative unknown at beginning of debates.

  • Lincoln Wins Presidency

    Lincoln Wins Presidency
    http://www.nps.gov/history/logcabin/html/al1.html
    Lincoln did no personal campaigning in the presidential election of 1860. It was a four way race to become the president of the United States. He does not win a popular majoity though. He is not even on the ballot of the nine southern states.

  • Confederate States of America Formed

    Confederate States of America Formed
    http://www.mce.k12tn.net/civil_war/confederacy.htm</a>The Confederate States had felt the United States broke the Constitution.The Confederacy argued that the United States failed to enforce the Fugitive Slave Laws. The government wouldn’t allow slavery in the new territories. Virginia said if the North decided to fight then they would fight against them. Lincoln said they wouldn’t use force to get the states back into the Union. He hoped they would do it on their own.
    http://www.mce.k12tn.net/civil_war/confederacy.htm

  • The South Secedes

    The South Secedes
    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/tl1861.html
    Abraham Lincoln was elected president.They called a state convention. The delegates voted to remove South Carolina from the union the United States of America.The secession of six more states, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. The threat of Secession by four more, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
    http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/tl1861.html