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Road to the Civil War Timeline

By ellasoko

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    • The Missouri Compromise lasted 34 years. It was nullified by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 which allowed slavery in all of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36۬°30’. Brought popular sovereignty.

  • Missouri Compromise

    • It admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It kept the balance between slave and free states 12/12. Missouri was the first state carved out of the Louisiana Purchase. No slavery would be allowed north of the 36۬°30’. This is significant because even in 1820, there was a sectional conflict that foreshadows the Civil War.

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  • Annexation of Texas

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  • Bleeding Kansas

    After the passing of the Kansas and Nebraska Act in 1854, which repealed the compromise of 1820, anti-slave and slave supporters flocked to Kansas to cast their votes in the decision whether Kansas would be a slave or free state. Two opposing capitals were set up

  • Dred Scott v. Sanford

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  • Harper’s Ferry (John Brown)

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  • Election of Abraham Lincoln

  • South Carolina Secession

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  • Fort Sumter

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