Holly's civil war timeline

By VikingStudent

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    The missouri compromise was an agreement made by the states that said that all the states south of the Mason Dixon Line would remain slave states and all the states north of the Mason Dixon Line were free states.

  • Compromise 1850

    Compromise 1850
    Gold discovered in California Quickly get 60,000 people, apply for statehood. This leads to California being known as a free state.

  • Kansas-Nebraksa Act

    Kansas-Nebraksa Act
    If the south goes along with the northern route the Missouri Compromise line will be erased. Popular sovereignty will replace the line - each state will vote for themselves on slavery - passes.

  • Sumner brooks incident

    Sumner brooks incident
    Southern Congressman Preston Brooks savagely beats Northern Senator Charles Sumner in the halls of Congress as tensions rise over the expansion of slavery.

  • Dred scott vs. Sanford

    Dred scott was a free slave who sued his master when they moved up north, and the court debadted on whether they should grant him his freedom because he was in a free state, but they did not grant him his freedom,

  • John Brown's raid

    John Brown's raid
    John Brown was a major abolitionist. He and his five sons took slaves up tp the appalacian mountains and persuaded them to rebel agianst the white men.