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Abolitionist Movement
Abolitionist Movement stared in 1787 with New York abloishing slavery, Ends in 1865 when the thirteenth amendment is added to the constitution which ablishes slavery. Abolitionist ideas became increasingly prominent in Northern churches and politics beginning in the 1830s, which contributed to the regional animosity between North and South leading up to the Civil War. -
John Brown and Bleeding Kansas
Kansas broke the Missouri Comprimise by letting the people decide whether it would be a slave state or not. Both Abolishionists and pro slavery fighters fled into the territory trying to sway the vote. John Brown helped lead the abolishionist movement and played a huge role in making it a free state. This only made it more violent and caused more conflict between the North and South. -
Missouri Compromise
Missori was declared a slave state, however maine was brought into the union as a free state to balance out the senate. All states North of Missouri were to be free states and all those that were South were to be slave states. This divided the union in half. -
Fugitive Slave Act/ Underground Railroad
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
it was an anti slavery novel Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was a popular novel that caused a lot of conflict on the topic of slavery. This only aided the separation of our country. -
Dred Scott Decision
This decision stated that no person with african american blood could become a U.S citizen. The decision proved to be an indirect catalyst for the American Civil War. It was functionally superseded by Civil Rights act of 1866 by the 4th Amendement which gave African Americans full citizenship. -
Election of 1860
When Abrham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election, but due to 40% of the popular vote.Southern fears that the republicans would abolish slavery reached a new peak. -
Southern Succession
The Southern states weren't happy with the outcome of the election when Linclon won, so they separated from the union. This was only temporarily. -
Fort Sumter
Provisonal Confederate forces in Charleston demanded the Forts surrender but the commander Major Anderson refused. The confederates opend fire and the following day Anderson surrendered... War begun.
