Events leading up to the civil war

By patrickgarcia
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    19th Century

  • missouri compromise

  • Wilmot Proviso

    Banned slavery in the Mexican cession

  • Compromise of 1850

    California : free state
    New Mexico:slave state
    texas could be broken into 5 states.

  • Publishing uncle toms cabin

    Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin upset northerners and southerners because it was a story of about slavery in the south.

  • Beeding Kansas

    A compromise on the issue of slavery would not be possible due to the example of senseless killing through "Bleeding Kansas." "Bleeding Kansas" started over northerners and southerners trying to convince the other side of their opinion on slavery for popular sovereinity

  • Arise of Republican party vs. Democratic party

    The breakdown of the two-party system signaled the end to the North and the South working together.

  • Congressman Preston Brooks Beats Senator Charles Sumner

    Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane.