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Events Leading To The Civil War .

By r0204837

  • Wilmot Proviso

    Wilmot Proviso
    Congress Tried To Stop The Spread Of Slavery .
    It Failed, But South Is Concered .

  • Compromise Of 1850

    Compromise Of 1850
    They Managed To Keep Both Sides Satisfied And Prevent A Permanet Split Before The Civil War .

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom's Cabin
    Story Calling For An End To Slavery .

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act
    People Began FLooding Into Kansas And Nebraska.
    States Could Decide For Themselves .

  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas
    Small Scale Civil War In Kansas.
    The Rally Cry For The Anti-Slavery Northerners & Republican Party; Bleeding Kansas .

  • Dred Scott Decision

    Dred Scott Decision
    Dred Scott Was A Slave And Sued For His Freedom .
    The Supreme Court Ruled - African Americans Were Not Citizens And Could Not Sue .

  • Lincoln-Douglass Debates

    Lincoln-Douglass Debates
    Lincoln And Stephen A. Douglass Were Running For Senator.
    Lincoln Said Slavery Was Wrong But Legal .
    Douglass Won Election.

  • Harper's Ferry

    Harper's Ferry
    John Brown- Seized The Federal Arsenal .
    Stir Up A Slave Revolt In Virginia And End Slavery.
    Brown Became A Hero In The Cause Of Slavery .

  • Election Of 1860

    Election Of 1860
    Voters In 1860 Voted Mostly Based On Which Section Of The Country They Lived In.
    Lincoln Promised To Keep Slavery From Spreading Into The New Territories.

  • Fort Sumter

    Fort Sumter
    South Opened Fire On April 12, 1861 And The Union Had To Surrender .
    Only Thing Killed Was A Horse .