-
This is a timeline of the civil war
-
President Millard Fillmore said that California and Washington D.C. will not tolerate slavery. Neither side would be satisfied.
-
The government of the North forced the citizens to capture the slaves that went up into the north. This made the north hate the south even more.
-
Uncle Tom's Cabin was a novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe about a slave who got beat up. Northerners can now see the human side of slavery, not the politic side.
-
Stephen Douglas proposed this in 1853 then, the act was published in 1854. Nebraska and Kansas would be able to chose wither they want to have slaves or not.
-
Kansas held a illegal voting session for pro-slavery or anti-slavery. Kansas decided to be both instead of people getting mad that they were not chosen to be that in Kansas.
-
Dred Scott tried to sue but he could not because he was not a citizen. He thought he was free because he was in free soil. This set the definition that slaves are property.
-
Lincoln and Douglas were in a debate for slavery. Douglas won the election and he was for popular sovereignty.
-
John Brown attacked Harper's Ferry, Virginia. He wanted to seize the guns that the U.S. Army had there. He was unsuccessful, later he got hanged of murder.
