-
Constitution written
Helped lead to the civil war because it addressed slavery in terms of population and declared slavery constitutional, making it so that you couldn't get rid of slavery without amending the constitution. Slavery was a main driver of the civil war. The constitution never addressed succession. When the south states began seceding, Buchanan who had a strict interpretation of the constitution did not act upon their succeeding because the constitution never addressed it. -
Missouri Compromise
Congress created the imaginary line allowing states south of the line slavery and prohibiting states north slavery. Split the U.S. into slavery & non-slavery which created tension that furthered the division of the U.S. causing it to lead to the Civil War. -
Compromise of 1850
Made California free slave state, allowed people to pick in Utah and New Mexico and introduced popular sovereignty which furthered the division of the U.S. that ultimately led to the Civil War -
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Part of the compromise of 1850, requiring citizens to help catch runaway slaves, and fined those who didn't or helped slaves. Created tensions between pro-slavery and abolitionists. -
Uncle Toms Cabin
Novel written by Harriet Stowe. Showed the evils of slavery which upset northerners. Southerners were upset claiming it untrue. Furthered the division between North ans South. -
Period: to
Bleeding kansas
Part of Kansas-nebraska Act, which allowed states popular sovereignty. Pro-slavery and anitslavery settlers faught & killed over Kansas goverment representatives. First time organized acts of violence occured. -
Dred Scott Decision
Supreme court ruled congree unable to outlaw slavery in a territory and stated the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional and slaves were property. Upset north and anti-slavery settlers, furthered their cause to fight against slavery. -
John Brown raid on Harpers Ferry
Growing Abolitionist movement that helped make any accommodation between north and south nearly impossible -
Election of 1860
With Abraham Lincon elected it caused southern states to succed because of the unbalance free-states/slavestates in Congress over the unable expansion of slavery. causes southern states to ban together into The Confederate States of America. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
South Carolina attacked after the Fort refused to relinquich power to the Confederacy & ordered reinforcements. Begging of the Civil War & official hostilities. -
Civil War Begins
Civil War All AcessIn the spring of 1861, decades of simmering tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including states' rights versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War (1861-65).The War Between the States, as the Civil War was also known, pitted neighbor against neighbor and in some cases. By the time it ended in Confederate surrender in 1865, the Civil War proved to be the costliest war ever fought on our American soil.
