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Event that lead us to the Civil War

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  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    ALL FUTURE STATES ABOVE THE LINE WILL BE FREE, AND THE STATES AT THE BOTTOM WILL KEEP SLAVERY. THERE ARE 11 FREE STATES 11 SLAVE STATES. AS THEY EXPAND TO THE WEST, THE ISSUE OF FREE STATES VS. SLAVE STATES DOMINATES POLITICS.

  • Tariff of 1828

    Tariff of 1828
    Was a protective tariff passed by the Congress of the United States designed to protect industry in the northern United States.

  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    North does not have slaves and also the capitol. The South have slaves and if they were founded in the North should send them back to the South.

  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas
    Was a series of political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-States and Slavery States

  • Kansas/Nebraska act

    Kansas/Nebraska act
    The purpose of the Kansas–Nebraska Act was to open up many thousands of new farms and make feasible a Midwestern Transcontinental Railroad. This event lead the citizens to the Bleeding Kansas

  • Caning of Charles Sumner or Brocks/Sumner Affair

    Representative Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner with his walking cane in a speech given by Sumner two days earlier. The beating had nearly killed Sumner. Sumner received in the mail some canes which they said "Beat him again."