Event Leading To Civil War

wilmot proviso

Apr 3, 1846

trying to stop slavery in new territory

compromise of 1850

Mar 30, 1850

congress argued about what to do with all the new territory

fugitive slave law

Mar 30, 1850

law passed to help slave holders recapture runaway slave

nullification

Apr 3, 1851

People in the North were so outraged at being forced to act as slave catchers that they began to talk again about Nullification

uncle tom's cabin

Apr 3, 1852

story calling for the end of slavery

kansas nebraska act

Apr 3, 1854

poeple in there state would decide for themselve to be slave or anti-slave

Bleading Kansas

Mar 30, 1856

pro slavery and abolishinist fought in kansas a small civil war happened in kansas

dred scott

Mar 30, 1857

slave sued for his freedom african americans were not citizen and could not sued

lincoln douglas debate

Apr 3, 1858

dabate over slavery
lincoln lost the election

harper's ferry

Apr 3, 1859

john browm seized federal arsenal

election of 1860

Mar 30, 1860

lincoln promised to keep slavery from spreading into new territory lincoln won the election

fort sumter

Mar 30, 1861

attack on fort sumter started the civil war the south secceded and became the confederate