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Events That Led To The Civil War
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3/5 Compromise
The 3/5 compromise was an act for the southern delegates in which big southern states wanted more representation in government.Northern delegates decided not to count all the slaves into government anfd give power to the south. This led to the decision that in which only 3 out of 5 slaves would only be counted towards the to the addition of the population in government -
Missouri Compromise
After the American Revolution and the 3/5 Compromise slavery has been a problem since. In 1820 now with the addition of Missouri and Maine to the union the issue with slavery was that now there was an uneven number of free and slave states in the north and south. -
Start of Mexican-American War
The Mexican-American War begins between James Polk and the US army fighting against Antonio López de Santa Anna and the Mexican Army fighting over who shold take over Texas and the rest of the southwest (formerly northwestern Mexico). -
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Mexican - American War
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End of Mexican-American War
James Polk and the US Army is able to defeat Antonio López de Santa Anna and the Mexican Army by the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo giving the United States the state of Texas and the rest of the southwest (formerly northwestern Mexico) -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 is the time period in which Senator Henry Clay has thought that he has found a solution in regards to the balance of slave states. -
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act gave all northern officials the right to capture runaway slave or someone who is suspicious of recent escape under the consent of southern slave owners. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Everyone in the Unitd States didn't know what to do with the Kansas and Nebraska Territories and the southern staes wanted slavery to be allowed to both Kansas and Nebraska territories if people would allow it based on popular sovereignty -
Frederick Douglass' Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act of 1855
Frederick Douglas one of many abolitionists who was a former slave and escaped to freedom where he landed in Massachusetts to talk with William Lloyd Garrison other obolitionists in Massachusetts and figure how will they find a way to give slaves their freedom passing the Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act of 1855 -
Supreme Court Case: Dred Scott VS.Sandford
Since the death of his slave owner John F.A.Sandford he believes that he should be free despite being born on free territory but was denied, When Scott went to local courts his freedom has been denied. But at the Supreme Court all Supreme Justices believe that Scott shold have freedom and freedom Scott was finaly free from slavery -
Election of 1860
During the election of 1860 Abraham Lincoln wins the election of 1860 over the other candidates -
Start of The Civil War
The Civil War begins with the fight between the Union up in the north led by future president Ulysses S. Grant against the Confederate southern states led by Robert E. Lee
