Events Leading To Civil War

Wilmot Proviso

Aug 8, 1846

This event was one of the MAJOR ROLE that lead to the Civil War. The event tried to banned slavery in any territory that would be aquirred from Mexico during the Mexican War. It Had Banned Slavery After All in Some Territroy's.

Compromise of 1850

Sep 10, 1850

This Compromise was a five bills package. Here They Are:
1.That Slave Trade Was Banned In Washington D.C.
2 Texas Had Surrendered Its Claims To Mexico & It Also Surrendered Claims North Of Missouri Compromise
3.California's Application For Admission as a Free State with its curent boundaries & It Was approved & A Southern proposal.
4.South Avoided Adopation of the Symbolically significant Wimot Proviso & New Mexican Territory & Uta Territory
5.Southern gains were stronger Fugitive Slave Act

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Mar 5, 1852

This Book Made By Harriet Beecher Stowe Was All About Anti-Slavery. It Helped lay down the groundwork for the Civil War. This Book Really Changed Slavery It Basiclly ended Slavery. In The 19th Century this book was a best-selling novel & it wa the second best-selling book in that century.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

May 30, 1854

This Act created territories of Kansas & Nebraska. It had opened new lands of settlement & it had effect on the Compromise of 1820. It also allowed settlers in the territories to determine Popular Sovereignty. Wouldn't matter if they allowed slavery within each territories.
The Act had been designed by Democratic Senator Stephen A. Douglas

Bleeding Kansas

Apr 2, 1856

Bleeding Kansas was a very serious violent political confrontations that involved anti-slavery, free states, & pro slavery. This event had taken place in Kansas Territory & nearby towns of Missouri. The heart of the conflict it was a question if Kansas would enter the Union as a free or slave state. Later on Kansas entered the Union as a free state, less than 3 months before Civil War

Dred Scott Decision

Sep 17, 1857

This Event was named after a African American slave named Dred Scott

Lincoln- Douglas Decision

Apr 2, 1858

This Debate was a series of 7 debates between Abraham Lincoln & Senator Stephen Douglas. These 2 men were trying to win control over the illinois legislature. The very main issue during these debates was in all 7 debates was slavery. But Lincoln had lost the election for senator of Illinois. Later Lincoln had wrote about all the debates & published them in a book.

Harper's Ferry

Oct 17, 1859

This event was led by John Brown. He had wanted to seize the federal arsenal. Brown wanted to do this because he wanted to stirr up slave revolt in Virginia & end slavery. But it didn't work for Mr.Brown. It had raid ultimately hastened the advent of the Civil War.

Election Of 1860

Apr 2, 1860

This Election was a quadrennial election. It was for the office of the President of the U.S & it immediated impetus for the outbreak of American Civil War . The nation had divivded throughout the 1850's & surrounding the expansion of slavery & right of slave owners.

Fort Sumter

Apr 12, 1861

This Battle was a Third System masonry coastal fortification that had took place in Charles Harbor, South Carolina. This Battle was also the best known as the site upon which shots initiating the American Civil War were fired, at the Battle Of Fort Sumter. This shots were fired at 4:30 a.m., the Confederate batteries had opened fire, firing for 34 straight hours, on there fort.