Events Leading To The Civil War

By B0906262

  • Wilmot Proviso

    Wilmot Proviso
    U,S had to write a new constitution to keep North and South both satisfied. The resolution was the Compromise of 1850.

  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    Kept North and South Satisfied for a while. Fugitive slave law was passed and CA became a free state,

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom's Cabin
    Book Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe to hope end slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe was a great American novelist who wrote about the slavery.

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act
    People in territorys could decide for themselves whether they want to be slave or free.

  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas
    Small scale Civil war in Kansas. The soldiers had a cry - "Bleeding Kansas."

  • Dred Scott Decision

    Dred Scott Decision
    Slave That sued for his freedom. Court issued slaves were property, therefore they could not sue.

  • Lincoln-Douglass Debates

    Lincoln-Douglass Debates
    Lincoln And Douglass running for senate in Illinois. Lincoln loses, but gains alot of fame.

  • Harper's Ferry

    Harper's Ferry
    Raid on a federal arsenal in Virginia by a man named John Brown. Brown was planning to end slavery.

  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860
    Presidential election, Lincoln won, South seceded from the country and created their own republic called "The Confederate States Of America."

  • Fort Sumter

    Fort Sumter
    First shot of civil war fired here,
    Nobody died except a horse. South fired first shot at North.