events leading to the civil war

Wilmot Proviso

Mar 30, 1846

government prohibited slavery in the Mexican Cession, excluding Texas, written by Henry Clay, kept the balance between slave and free states

Compromise of 1850

Mar 30, 1850

California added, slave trading stopped in the north, south got popular sovreaignty, and the fugitive slave. the fugitive slave act: act to have northerners bring runaway slaves back to the south

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Mar 30, 1852

also known as "Life Among the Lowly"
helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War
written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
this book wanted slavery to be sbolished

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Mar 30, 1854

allowed states to vote whether to be free or slave, this lead to a bloody civil war in Kansas (Bloody Kansas)

Bleeding Kansas

Mar 30, 1854

a civil war in Kansas broke out on wheter they should be a free or a slave state, between Kansas (aboltionists) and Missouri (slaveholders)

Dred Scott Decision

Mar 2, 1857

Dred Scott, a slave who lived in free state, Illinois.
"african americans, and those of african ancestory are not and cannot be citizens of the united sates, therefore they could not sue in federal court.
Scott tried to fight back with "all men are created equal"

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Apr 2, 1858

between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas
Lincoln did not believe the Union would fall, but that they would cease to be divided
Douglas won senator

Election of 1860

Apr 2, 1860

1860
Lincoln promised to abolish slavery
south said it would seperate from the union
the south called its new government the Confederacy
they elected Abraham Lincoln

Fort Sumter

Apr 12, 1861

first battle of the civil war.

Harper's ferry

Sep 12, 1862

Lee led the battle,he surrounded the force and captured it.