Civil war

civil war express

By Pouya123

  • Missouri compromise

    Missouri compromise
    The Northern and Southern politicians have heated debates over the growth of slavery.
    Henry Clay made this compromise
    The Missouri Compromise were a series of laws that helped maintain the balance between slave state and free states

  • The Nullification Crisis

    The Nullification Crisis
    Southern states like South Carolina felt that the tariffs were unfair and only supported the North. Vice President John C. Calhoun said any state could nullify (make void) a federal law it considers unconstitutional.
    When the federal government denied South Carolina’s argument
    South Carolina threatened to secede.
    Henry Clay came up with a compromise and lowered the tariff.

  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    congress didnt know whether to make the new states won from mexico either slavery or free
    Henry clay made compromise saying california would be admitted as afree state
    Congress would not pass laws banning slavery from the rest of the territories won from Mexico.
    so this compromise saved unions

  • Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

    Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
    This act was passed by congress to capture the slave who escaped from slavery from the south and came to the North.
    This act angered John Brown and it was one of the reasons to start the civil war.

  • Bleeding Kansas 1855

    Bleeding Kansas 1855
    5000 people from nearby proslavery Missouri came and vote for proslavery representatives in Kansas illegally.
    Anti-slavery made their own government and the proslavery force attacked them.
    John Brown raged and killed some of his proslavery neighbors

  • Dred scott decision

    Dred scott decision
    Dred Scott was and African American who went to court to fight againts slavery, but then the result was that the federal court can take the right, and the missouri compromise was known unconstitutional.

  • Attack on Harpers Ferry

    Attack on Harpers Ferry
    John brown wanted slaves to fight for their freedom, to capture the arsenal, Brown and his men were captured, then they killed Jonh Brown and abolisionists saluted him, the issue of slavery raised to the breaking point

  • The election of 1860

    The election of 1860
    Abraham Lincoln wins the election, then the south seceded from the north shortly after Lincoln was elected