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Missouri Compromise
This caused tension with slavery to rise. It created a 36 30' line that would soon later on get repealed for the free and the slave states. -
Mexican War
This raised more tension on slavery as well. The North saw the war as a southern conspiracy to create more slave states. -
Wilmot Proviso
This raised tension over slavery. To appease the North, this bill proposed making all land won from Mexico FREE. -
California Gold Rush
This raised tension over slavery. The people didn't know whether they wanted to expand slavery to the West or let it be a free state. -
Compromise of 1850
This lowered tension over the expansion of slavery. Because it determined the status of the land from the Mexican Cession including California. -
Fugitive Slave Law
This raised tension over slavery. Blacks were falsely identified as runaways, denied jury trials, and kidnapped to the South as slaves. -
Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published
This raised more tension about slavery. The book made slavery look terrible by all the graphic details in the book. The Southerners then after banned the book. -
Republican Party Forms
This caused the tension to rise with slavery. Southerners saw the Republicans as a threat to slavery to end it. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
It raised more tension as well. Because it let the people to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´. -
“Bleeding Kansas”
This raised tension with slavery. Northerners and Southerners were moving to Kansas to get the point across about their thoughts on slavery based on popular sovereignty and fought. -
Charles Sumner caned in the Senate
This caused more tension to be raised. It was based off the speech "The Crime Against Kansas" it had denounced slave states, especially South Carolina also causing him to get beat to death. -
Dred Scott vs. Sandford
This raised tension against slavery as well. The Supreme Court ruled that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court. The Court also ruled that Congress lacked power to ban slavery in the U.S. territories. -
John Brown’s Raid at Harper’s Ferry
This raised even more tension on slavery. The southerners started to fear more and more slave rebellions, so the South began to take action for war. -
Abraham Lincoln elected President
This raised more tension. Because Southerners knew that if he was elected President that slavery would soon come to a end. -
Battle at Fort Sumter
This raised tension against slavery it was the first civil war battle. The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of U.S. Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, by the Confederates, and the return gunfire and subsequent surrender by the U.S. Army that started the American Civil War. -
Southern states begin to secede
This raised tension. Because they didn't slavery to end so they then called their selves the Confederate States.
