Preceeding Events to the Civil War

  • The Missouri Compromise

  • Tariff of Abominations is passed

  • William Lloyd Garrison publishes the Liberator

  • Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion

  • "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" published

    Exact date of publication unknown
  • The Wilmot Proviso is proposed

  • "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is published

  • Charles Sumner Gets Caned

  • President Lincoln is elected

  • The South seceeds

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