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Civil War Choo-Choo Train

By whitneywurz
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    Civil War Choo-Choo Train

  • MIssouri Compromise

    MIssouri Compromise
    -North and South fight over slavery
    -Henry Clay came up with this compromise
    -Compromise did settle the debate
    -Series of laws that kept the slave and free state balence

  • Nullification Crisis

    Nullification Crisis
    -Tarrif laws passed
    -South disagrees and belives they only favor the North
    -Calhoun says any state can void a law they believe as unconstitutional
    -Federal Goverment denies them
    -South Carolins threaten to secede
    -Henry Clay makes a compromise and lowers the tarrif

  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    -Congress had debates over recently won Mexican territory
    -Henry Clay created compromise
    -California would be admitted as a free state
    -Slave trade in DC abolished
    -No law banning slavery in the rest of teritories won from Mexioc

  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Fugitive Slave Act
    -Passed in 1850 by congress
    -Permitted capture of African Americans who fled to the north to escape slavery
    -Heighted tensions
    -Set stage for John Brown's raid and the Civil War

  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860
    -Abraham Lincoln wins the election
    - Southern States begin to secede from the union after Lincoln becomes president
    - Southerners didn't trust him

  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas
    • 5,000 people from proslavery Missouri -Voted for proslavery represenitives in Kansas that were illegal
    • Anti-Slavery people started their own goverment
    • Anti-Slavery gov. was attacked ny prosalvery troops
    • Abolitionist John Brown murdered several of his proslavery neighbors

  • Dred Scott Decision

    Dred Scott Decision
    -Scott was a slave who lived in the free state of Illinois and Wisconsin
    - Next he moved to slave state Missouri
    - All blacks reguaredless of free or slave could not be US citizens
    - Court declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional
    - Salvery permitted in all of the country's territories

  • Attack on Harpers Ferry

    Attack on Harpers Ferry
    -John Brown wanted to inspire salves to fight for freedom
    - Planned to capture the arsenal in Virgina to arm the slaves
    - Brown and his men were captured in their attempt
    -Abolitionists saw Brown as a hero and saluted him
    - Slavery tensions rose dramatically and went over the top