civil war

By longtine.hunter

  • Missouri Compromise

    preserved the balance between slave and free states in the senate

  • Dred Scott Decision

    enslaved African american

  • Compromise of 1850

    congress finally passed five bills in 1850

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    support from northern democrats and the backing of president peirce

  • Raid on Harpers Ferry (John Brown)

    strike terror in the hearts of the pro-slavery people

  • “Bleeding Kansas”-Sacking of Lawrence

    800 slavery supporters attacked the town of Lawrence a stronghold of antislavery settlers

  • Lincoln Douglas Debates

    Lincoln was nearly an unknown

  • Election of Lincoln

    The U.S. wondered what he would say and do

  • Lincoln Inaugural Address

    Lincoln spoke to the seceding states directly mixing toughness with words of peace

  • Attack on Fort Sumter

    U.S. fort on an island guarding Charleston harbor