Events Leading to the Civil War

By franwall

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri admitted to the Union as a slave state.
    Maine admitted to the Union as a free state

  • Slavery Aolished in British Empire

  • Compromise of 1850

    California entered the Union as a free state.

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    People living in the teritories could decide the question of slavery by popular sovereignty.

  • Abraham Lincoln elected President