Events that led to the Civil War

By robfernandez532
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    Events

  • William Lloyd Garrison

    Urged Northern states to secede.

  • Frederick Douglas

  • Wilmot Proviso

  • James K. Polk extends borderline

  • Popular Soverignty

  • Mexican Cession

  • Free Soil Party

  • Fugitive Slave Act

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Lincoln-Douglas Debates

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

  • Pierce Elected

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Rebublican Party Created

  • Raid on Harper's Ferry

  • Bully Brooks

  • Pottawatomie Massacre

  • Grimke Sisters

  • Dred Scott

  • Freeport Doctrine

  • Oregon joins Union

  • Abe Lincoln Elected

  • Crittenden Compromise

  • Confederacy Established

  • Corwin Amendment

  • Lincoln's Inaguration

  • Jefferson Davis Elected

  • Fort Sumter

  • States leave Union