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Events Leadimg to the civil war.
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The Missuori Compormise
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state. In this way, it maintained the balance of power between slave and free states.
Meanwhile, as Secretary of State John Quincy Adams recognized, the compromise had not settled the future of slavery in the United States as a whole. -
Compromise of 1850
On Jaunary 21, 1850, Henry Clay a Senator from Kentucky trudged through a snow storm in Washington to pay an unexpected vist to senator Dan Webster. to propose the Missouri Compromise. It began by admitting California to the Union as a free state. That would please the North. Meanwhile, it allowed the New Mexico and Utah territories to decide whether to allow slavery, which would please the South. That created division that would lead to the war -
Kansas Nebraska Act.
The Kansas Nebraska act made northernsrs upset
it said that the Kansas and Nebraska Territories could Be Slave States.
it also said that they could build a railroad to Callifornia. and it would open Kansas and Nebraska to Settlers. These events led to the war by upseting Northerns.. The South wanted the Railroad. -
The Dread Scott Case
He went to Wissconson with his owner where it was illegal He became a free man while in wisconson. he arguered in court that because he went Out of the south he became free. The upset southerners -
The Election of 1860
The 1860 presidential race showed just how divided the nation had become. Abraham Lincoln Is Elected President With his opposition divided three ways, Lincoln sailed to victory
In the weeks following the election, talk of secession filled the air
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Attack on Fort Sumter
In early 1861, Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, marking the beginning of the Civil War.
