events leading up to civil war

By coraskaug

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    Missouri was admitted as a slave state, and Maine a non-slave state at the same time. This was to not upset the balance between the amount of slave and free states in the nation.

  • Nat Turner Rebellion

    Nat Turner Rebellion
    Turner and his followers killed an entire family, marched throughout the Southampton county in Virgina, killing many until authorities crushed the revolt.

  • The Wilmont Proviso

    The Wilmont Proviso
    an unsuccessful proposal in the United States congress to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico in the Mexican-American war, this conflict is one of the major events leading up to the American civil war.

  • Mexican-American War

    Mexican-American War
    War between the united states and Mexico, started from the states annexation of Texas from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces river or the Rio grande.

  • Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad

    Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad
    One of the most well-known railroad "conductors" refers to the efforts of enslaved African Americans to gain their freedom by escaping bondage.

  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    A series of measures proposed by the U.S senator Henry claw and was passed by the U.S Congress to settle several issues connected to slavery and avert the threat of dissolution of the union.

  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Fugitive Slave Act
    part of the compromise of 1850, the act that required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state currently.

  • Gold Rush in California

    Gold Rush in California
    a rapid influx of fortune seekers in California that began after gold was found, according to estimates more than 300,000 people came into the territory during the gold rush.

  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin published

    Uncle Tom’s Cabin published
    Tells the story of Uncle Tom, an enslaved person who was being transported by a boat to auction, Tom saves the life of Eva and out of gratefulness her father purchases tom.

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act
    Repealed the Missouri compromise, created two new territories and allowed for popular sovereignty.

  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas
    A series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, it emerged from a political and ideological debate over the legality of slavery.