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Events Leading up to the Civil War
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Nat turners Slave Rebellion
Nat turner a slave in Virginia started a two-day slave rebellion. He and his following killed around 60 white plantation owners before being suppressed and killed. This lead to fear among southern plantation owners and severe treatment and punishment for slaves everywhere. -
The Killing of Elijah Parish Lovejoy
Prominent abolitionist Elijah Parish Lovejoy was writing anti-slavery articles in Alton, Illinois. This lead to a mob raiding his warehouse and killing him. This upset many anti-slavery people, including John Q Adams. This is one example of how discourse was beginning to break down in America -
Slave revolt on the La Amistad
When slaves revolted in on the La Amistad in 1839 they did not know what would happen. What ended up happening is since the US had banned the slave trade the Mende were able to gain their freedom and became a symbol of abolition in America. -
The Mexican-American war.
President James Polk sent the army to the disputed Texas territory and the Mexican forces attacked. This lead to anti-slavery people to call out the south for trying to expand slavery and inched the union closer to the civil war -
The Compromise of 1850
With the Mexican American war over Texas and California wanted to be added to the Union, the following agreement of California being a free state and Texas being a slave state, as well as the northerners being required by law to return runaway slaves angered many in the north. They were a contributing factor in the breakdown of discourse and the breakout of war. -
Bleeding Kansas
After the KS-NE act that allowed Kansas and Nebraska to become states. Conflicts began as the states could choose whether or not to be slave states. This lead to civil unrest and conflict that turned bloody in a prelude to what was to come. -
The Sacking of Lawrence
The Sacking of Lawrence was the first event in a series of violence named "Bleeding Kansas." This started when Sheriff Samuel J. Jones attacked and ransacked the town, killing one anti-slavey person. This lead to the shutting down of an anti-slavery newspaper. -
Preston Brooks attacks Charles Sumner
When Charles Sumner gave a fiery speech on slavery Rep. Preston Brooks took offense and canned Charles Sumner severely Injuring Charles and showing the American People that violence was ok and that the debate that was dominating the civil lives of American was also ending in no resolution in the government -
The Attempted breakout of Anthony Burns
When Anthony Burns ran away from his masters, and he fled to Boston. Before his case was tried, a mob of black and white abolitionists stormed the courtroom and tried to forcefully free Burns, in the end, failing to do so. Showing how many northern states disliked the fugitive slave act and how far they were going to take their morals and Ideals -
The Marais des Cygnes massacre
Charles Hamilton and 30 other pro-slavery people came into Kansas in 1858, eventually arriving in a trading post and gathering up 11 free staters execting 5 of them and wounding another 5. -
John Browns Raid
Abolitionist John Brown, after the conflicts in Kansas, went to Virginia. He and 19 Abolitionist lead a raid at the Harpers Ferry armory. John Brown's plan failed, being executed later that year John Brown and his associates, but the event was used to spark fear and unrest in the south, eventually leading to the Civil war. -
The Battle of Fort Sumter
After South Carolina Succeed from the union in 1861 Several forts that belonged to the union were in "foreign territory." This lead to the 36-hour bombardment of the fort from the South Carolina Milita. The fort surrendered, and the civil war started.
