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The Wilmot Proviso
The Wilmot Proviso, one of the major events leading to the American Civil War, would have banned slavery in any territory. -
The compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five bills, passed in the United States in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories . -
The Kansas Nebraska Act
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, by allowing settlers in those territories to determine through and whether they would allow slavery within each territory. -
Bleeding Kansas
Bleeding Kansas was a series of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery "Border Ruffian" elements, that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of Missouri between 1855. -
The Dred Scott Decision
Born a slave in Virginia; moved to free state of Illinois in 1834. Moved to Minnesota in 1836; non-free state. 1843: Dr. Emerson died.Scott Sues Mrs. Emerson claims he was kidnapped. Jury rules in favor of him.Mrs. Emerson Appeals; Missouri State court says he isn’t free.Emerson moves to New York; Scott sues in federal courts.Emerson won; Scott appeals to the Supreme court; rule in favor of Emerson. -
John Brown's Raid
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. Was an attempt by white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt by seizing a United States Arsenal at Harpers Ferry in Virginia in 1859. -
The election of Lincoln as President
Presidential election. 1860Four People. Lincoln promised. Slavery would exist in states they had been in. He just didn't want slavery to expand. -
South Carolina secedes from the Union
On December 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first Southern state to declare its secession and later formed the Confederacy. -
Formation of the confederacy, Fort Sumter, Beginning of the civil War
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War.
