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Events Leading to the Civil War

By njustice339

  • The Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri Compromise
    the agreement that no territory north of Missouri’s southern border would be allowed to enter the Union as a pro-slavery state. That part of the agreement stopped enslavement from spreading to the remainder of the area included in the Louisiana Purchase.

  • The Mexican War Ended

    The Mexican War Ended
    The Mexican war ended and America inherited new land and didn’t know how to separate them into free and slave states. Eventually the compromise of 1850 made California a free state and the people in Utah and New Mexico could decide what they wanted to be.

  • The Fugitive Slave Law

    The Fugitive Slave Law
    People who were caught helping slaves escape were punished. Any freedmen could be kidnapped and turned in as a runaway slave at any time.

  • "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

    "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
    Harriet Beecher Stowe published this book about the hardships of slavery and it helped open the eyes of America. Abe Lincoln says was one of the many things that started the war.

  • "Bleeding Kansas" Riots

    "Bleeding Kansas" Riots
    After the Kansas-Nebraska act, Kansas was left to decide whether they were a slave state or free state by popular sovereignty. Both sides of people used force to decide and it became known as
    "bleeding Kansas"

  • The Dred Scott Case

    The Dred Scott Case
    Dred Scott wanted to be free because he was a slave that worked on a plantation in a free state. He was denied freedom because he didn't own property and because he was property of his master.

  • Lecompton Constitution Rejection

    Lecompton Constitution Rejection
    Kansas was allowed to determine whether it would enter the Union as a free or slave state. Numerous constitutions were advanced by the territory to make this decision. The Lecompton Constitution was created, allowing for Kansas to be a slave state. There was enough opposition to be took back and Kansas became a free state.

  • Harper's Ferry

    Harper's Ferry
    Abolitionist John Brown led a group of people to raid Harper's Ferry. His goal was to start an uprising but after he captured a couple buildings, Brown and his men were surrounded and captured or killed.

  • Lincoln was Elected

    Lincoln was Elected
    The south didn't like having someone against slavery in control. 7 southern states seceded from the Union and became the Confederacy. Lincoln said the south was becoming too powerful.

  • Attack on Fort Sumter

    Attack on Fort Sumter
    The newly formed Confederate government kept insisting that the troops leave, and the federal government refused to give in to the demands. The attack on Fort Sumter had no combat casualties. But it helped start the Civil War.