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Uncle Tom's Cabin
This was written by a white female Northerner from the perspective of a black man who was a slave in the South. Her book cause the North to really see what was going on in the South with the slaves. This let the North voice their opinion about slaves causing more tension than what there was before because of how the North and South disagreed on how to treat slaves. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas- Nebraska Act is significant leading up to the Civil War because they came up with the people deciding if they wanted to be a free or slave state. When it came to vote for slavery, a bunch of Southerners came up to these territories and voted for slavery. The North thought that it was unfair so they hold the vote again and the same thing happens with slavery winning so the government decides not to let them in as states. This act further divided the Nation and people. -
Dred Scott vs. Stanford
This event is significant in leading to the Civil War because this court case ruled that slaves were property so they couldn't sue white people. This was great for the Southern people because the Federal had made it clear that slaves were property. This ruling further increased the tension between the North and South. -
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia
This was significant because John Brown's plan was to through the South and kill all the slave owners with the help of slaves that he freed. This raid showed how far people, who don't like slavery, will go to stop slavery. If his raid went through all the way then this raid could have help start the Civil War earlier. -
Abraham Lincoln is elected President
Lincoln becoming President is significant because with him beoming President that made the Nation split into the Confederate states and the Union. He also stood by his view that slavery was bad for the Nation and how it was splitting us apart and he never sighed away from that view, Him becoming President also helped the North in fight because Lincoln would tell the people the cause for why they were fighting. -
South Carolina secedes from the Union
This was a turning point in history because this was the first time that a state left the Union because of their believes. South Carolina left because Abraham Lincoln was elected President and they said that if he was elected then they would leave the Union because they thought he would get rid of slavery. After South Carolina secedes, other states who believed in slavery decided that they should leave too and then the Confederate states were born. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
This is significant because this battle is the battle that really started the Civil War. The reason this battle is so important is because this was in South Carolina and they seceded from the Union but the Union still had control of this fort. The Confederates wanted this fort since it was in Confederate land and so they attacked it. The next day they captured it and President Lincoln called for state militias to stop the rebellion but when he did this, this caused more states to join the South. -
Capture of Harry's Ferry, Virginia
This was the largest single surrender that the Union made during the war. The Confederate attacked the Union army that was there and they just fired on them and eventutally the Union was going to surrender but the Confederates kept firing a cannon and it hit the Union general wounding him so the Union then gave the Confederacy 73 artillery pieces, 13,000 rifles, and some 12,000 men. -
Emancipation Proclamation was put into effect
This was siginificant because this said that all slaves in the South free. This didn't work because the South was its own nation that didn't listen to the U.S. This proclamation also changed how the North view this war instead of defeating the South, they saw it now as a mission to free the rest of the slaves in the South. -
President Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address
This is significant because this were President Lincoln explains the meaning of the war to the public that had grow a little weary of the war. In his speech, he mention what the Founding Fathers what the nation to look like and how every man was created equal. He also mention why the North was there and how that the men that died at the Battle of Gettysburg died for something they believed in and that they shouldn't die in vain and the North should keep fighting that the soldiers died for,
