road to the civil war

By dsoto984

  • first slaves

    first slaves were brought over

  • cotton gin

    cotton gin was a machine created in the south which caused tention between north and south

  • tariff

  • women rights

  • abolition newspaper

  • Missouri compromise

  • liberia

    they wanted to create an island in africa for slaves

  • annex of texas

  • mexican american war

  • Free soil Party

    many people started to oppose slavery and go to the side of the free soil party

  • california slave or non slave state

  • ended slave trade in D.C

    fugitive slave law

  • Uncle Toms Cabin

    made northerners know how bad slavery is

  • kansas Nebraska act

  • Republican Party

    Republican Party created by antislavery people

  • John Brown

    john brown led people from kansas to the east to protest

  • bleeding kansas

    john browns raid 1859

  • abraham lincoln is elected

  • Lincoln is elected president

  • civil war

    war between north and south