Road to Civil War

By zeam19

  • First Slaves in America

    Start of Slave culture

  • Invention of Cotton Gin

    Cotton Gin allowed southerners to grind out cotton like never before so slavery increased and so did the hate of it

  • Industrial Revolution

    Northerners held much power and made most goods, southerners resented this

  • Free slaves

    Free African Americans defied what southerners said and did

  • Tariff on Goods from Europe

    Southerners had to buy more things from north

  • Missouri Compromise

    Defines were slave states are and keeps fragile balance, if broken the it is bad

  • New England Anti-Slavery Society

  • Frederick Douglas

    Escaped slave Douglas tells of horrors of slavery to northerners

  • Free Soil Party

    A new soon to be republican anti-slavery party

  • Texas Annexation

    Another slave state is added and tensions between north and south increase

  • Mexican-American War

    More states are added and more conflict to which side they will ally with, slave or industrial?

  • PERSIA

    Political, Economic, Religious, Social, International, Artistic

  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Makes northerners take slaves back to south, they hate this and despise south more

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Book about slave life, appalled Northerners

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Fighting breaks out on if Kansas will be free or slave

  • Election of 1856

    Southerners were getting nervous about the Norths influence as the against slavery Republicans won 1/3 of the popular vote without any southern support

  • Dred Scott Case

    Supreme Court rules that outlawing slavery is illegal

  • Harpers Ferry

    John Brown attacks an armory to start a slave rebellion, South is appalled and think that northerners will take to violence

  • Execution of John Brown

    Brown was a freedom fighter and was praised by the North. The south on the other hand was shocked and thought that Northerners were now on a mission to destroy slavery.

  • Election of 1860

    Abraham Lincoln is elected with no southern support, southerners feel powerless in government

  • South Secedes

    The southern states break away and form the Confederate States of America, we are now at the brink

  • Complications in Seceding

    South began to seize forts and Abraham Lincoln was split between war or letting the south be a free nation. Union didn't except the seceding overall.

  • Fort Sumter Bombardment

    South takes Sumter by force after they refuse to give up. South wanted Sumter because it controlled a waterway. 2 men died.
  • Period: to

    Civil War

    North declares war after Sumter is attacked. Civil war lasts 5 years with 620,000 deaths on the field. North wins.