Road To The Civil War

By A.Lozano

  • Fugitive Slave Law

    The Fugitive Slave Law was signed by president washington that required citizens to turn in runaway slaves that they came across and return them to their owner and in return they would get a reward.

  • Missouri Compromise

    This was done to regulate the amount of slave states and free states. this created maine and was to be a free state, and thus it allowed missouri to become a slave state.

  • Wilmot Proviso

    This was a proposed law by congressman David Wilmot. it stated that all the land acquired from Mexico, in the Mexican war, compleatly outlaw slavery. however it was turned down fairly quickly by the senate, which was mostly southern representatives

  • The 31st Congress

    This was a meeting of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives to discuss multiple things such as th Fugitive Slave Act, and that states secession

  • Harriet Tubman

    Harriet Tubman and her brothers escaped slavery on september 17 1849. but later they found a runaway notice since the fugitive slave act required people to return slaves, her brothers returned with her, however she escaped again and then became a union spy and used the undergroud railroad to save about 13 slaves

  • The Compromise of 1850

    This was actually five seperate bills that were passed. this package solved the problem of what to do with the territories won in the mexican war. The Compromise divided Texas into its now current day bountries, creating territorial governments with popular sovereignty for New Mexico and Utah, admitting California as a free state, abolishing the slave trade in the District of Columbia, and enacting a new fugitive slave law.

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    This is a novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, that detailed the life of a black slave. This novel opened some peoples eyes and even got religious support to abolish slavery.

  • The Kansas-Nebraska Act

    This act created the Kansas and Nebraska territories, it allowed for new sttlement but repealed the Missouri Compromise and had the land owner to decide through popular soverignty if they want slaves or not. this led to a lot of conflict and Boody Kansas

  • Beeding Kansas

    This was a very violent and bloody time for them. it was literally pro-slavery forces vs. anti-slavery forces. such as the Sacking of St. Lawrence where pro-slavery forces ransacked the town of lawrence. and John Brown made plans to kill the people who were pro-slavery.

  • Beating of Charles Sumner

    Three days prior to this event, senator Charles Sumner went to the house of representatives and gave a speech titled "Crime Against Kansas" which confronted the issue if Kansas should be a free state or a slave state. this speech focused mostly on Stephen Douglas and Andrew Butler. Butler's kinsman Prston Brooks was there in his place. three days later Brooks went to the senate chamber and while Sumner was at his desk working, Brooks started beating him till he was unconsious

  • The Dred Scott Decision 1857

    One day while Scott was on a trip with his master, in the free state territories his master died. Scott was not sure if he is free or not. So he decided to fight for his freedom and sue the state, However the Supreme Court turned down his case because he was not considered a citizen. he was just property

  • Harpers Ferry

    The most extreme of the abolishonists, john brown decided to start a revolution of the slaves by supplying them with wepons. He planed on getting these wepons by trying to raid Harpers Ferry a U.S. arsenal. this ended as you would expect, Brown was defeated and sentanced to death for treason.

  • The Election of 1860

    The presidential election had 4 canidates. they were Stephen Douglas, John C. Breckenridge, John Bell, and finally Abraham Lincoln.The winner was Lincoln with only 40% of popularity vote, and 180 electoral votes. He just barely was able to win this election, and such a crowded one at that.

  • South Carolina Secedes from the Union

    After Linoln won the election south carolina thought he would bring the end of slavery so they decided to secede from the union. they invited othe states to join them in their new "confederate states of america". With this act, the American Civil War starts.