Road to the Civil War

By lebarone18

  • First slaves in 13 Colonies

    What: First African slaves captured and brought to the new land
    Why: Start of Southern economy's need for slavery

  • Cotton Gin Invented

  • Missouri Copromise

  • Turner Trial

  • Nat Turner kills 57 white men, women, and children in their sleep to make a statement against slavery

  • Wilmot Proviso passed in Congress

  • Free-Soilers are founded

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin is published

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • John Browns raid

  • Dred Scott Case

  • Height of Slavery in USA