Events leading to Civil War

Wilmot Proviso

Mar 30, 1846

He wanted to band slavery from the west.
Congress tryed to stop the spread of slavery.
Wilmot Proviso failed but south is concerned.

Compromise of 1850

Mar 30, 1850

Tryed to keep the balance in slave and free states and to help slaveholders recapture runaway slaves.

Fugetive slave law

Apr 2, 1850

To help slaveholder recapture runaway slaves
there will still be slaveholder trying to capture fugitive slave

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Apr 3, 1852

Harriet beecher stowe calling for an end of slavery.
Slavery is horrible cruel and unacceptable..
Trying to stop slavery.......

Bleeding Kansas

Mar 30, 1854

Small scale civil war in kansas.
Hit sumpter 30 times breaking his cane

Kansas Nebraska Act

Apr 2, 1854

People from their territories could decide from themselve whether Their state would allow slavery...
People began flodding into kansas and nebraska..

Dred Scott

Apr 2, 1857

Slaves sewd for freedom and african americans were not citizens and they could not sew because they called slaves propety.

Lincoln -Douglas Debates

Apr 3, 1858

debated slavery..
slavery was wrong but legal..
lincoln lost election and became famous.

Harper's Ferry

Apr 2, 1859

Seized the federal arsenal
Plan stir up a slave revolt in virginia and end slavery..

Election of 1860

Apr 2, 1860

Voters in 1860 voded mostley based on witch section of the country they lived in.
reasons:
1.disagreements over states rights issued
2.Breakdown between compromises
3.Increasing sectionalism
4.The election of 1860

Fort Sumpter

Apr 12, 1861

The south opened fired
Thies event starded the civl war.
The union had to surrender and the war had begun.