Events Leading To The Civil War

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  • Wilmot Proviso

    Wilmot Proviso
    Congress tried to stop the spread of slavery .He failed , but South is concerned .

  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    To help slave holders re-capture slaves . Managed to keep both sides satisfied and not have a permitted split before the war .

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom's Cabin
    This was a story calling for end of slavery .

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act
    This gave the people the right to decide for themselves and many people decided to leave where they orginally stayed to move into Kansas and Nebraska .

  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas
    Small scale war in Kansas .

  • Dred Scott

    Dred Scott
    Dred sued for his freedon , since African Americans were not yet citizens , this decision could not take place . This increased tension between Northern and Southern states .

  • Lincoln-Douglass Debates

    Lincoln-Douglass Debates
    They debated slavery

  • Harper's Ferry

    Harper's Ferry
    John Brown seized the federal arsenal , to end slavery . It was a fail .

  • Electionof 1860

    Electionof 1860
    Voters voted based on section they lived in .
    South seceded .

  • Fort Sumter

    Fort Sumter
    This was the firsat battle , and south opened fire is what set it off .