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Events that led to civil war
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Missouri Compromise
Missouri was made into a slave state, while Maine was made into a free state. This compromise made it for the amount of slave states and free states were even. -
Wilmot Proviso
This was a proposed bill, which was shut down. The bill was for all of the land acquired from Mexico would become free states. This made the sounthenerns very angry with the North, because those states were in the south -
Compromise of 1850
It was a seris of 5 bills, that included making California free, and making it for there could be no more slave trading D.C. This made the South very upset, and there was talk of seceding from the North if California went free. Also made it for there could be no slave states above the 36º 30º line. -
Dred Scott descion
A seris of trials of wether a slave who was brought into a free state should be freed. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court, who ruled that he would not be free. This showed that the Supreme Court believed that there was nothing anyone could do if slaves were brought into a free state. -
Fugitive slave acts
Laws that allowed for if a run away slave was captured in the North, he could be brought back to the South. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe, wrote a book on the hardships of slavery. The book enraged the North and convinced them to be against slavery -
Kanas/ Nebraska act
Congress passed for that Kansas and Nebraska could vote to be free or slave states. This made the North upset and the South happy. -
Bleeding Kansas
Since Kansas could vote on wether to be a free or slave state, many people on both sides moved to kansas to vote there. Fights broke out, and there were raids on other towns. There were two governments in Kansas, one free and one slave. It continued until federal troops got invovled -
Lincoln-Douglas debates
The debates between Lincoln and Douglas for the Senate. Lincoln staed that a house dived cannot stand, which made that south believe he would abolish slavery. Lincoln lost that race, but the North saw him as a rising star. -
John Brown's raid
A raid by a man named John Brown and others, to try to secure weapons, and have the slaves fight for there freedom. The slaves didn't come to help. He was cought, tried, and hung. In the North he was a hero, and in the south a villain -
Licoln's election
Lincoln won the presidential elction, with a popular vote of 40%. This made the south worried, because they thought he was going to outlaw slavery. -
South Carolina seceds
South Carolina is the first state to secede. This causes more states to secede and form there own nation.
