toward civil war

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  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    The Missouri Compromise was made to a peace the Northern and Southern states.

  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    Senator Henry Clay proposed a compromise that would keep the crisis between the Northern and Southern states from rising

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act
    The Kansas-Nebraska Act made it possible for Kansas-Nebraska to choose if they wanted to be slave or free states.

  • “Bleeding Kansas”-Sacking of Lawrence

    “Bleeding Kansas”-Sacking of Lawrence
    "Bleeding Kansas" was when the Northern Anti-slavery and the Southern Pro-slavery groups fought over if the state of Kansas would be pro or anti-slaver.

  • Dred Scott Decision

    Dred Scott Decision
    The Dred Scott Decision shocked the nation, when the Supreme Court said that he was still a piece of property and not free even though his former master died when Dred Scott and his family where living in free land.

  • Lincoln Douglas Debates

    Lincoln Douglas Debates
    The Lincoln Douglas Debates was a series of seven debates between the Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln and Democratic candidate Stephen Douglas.

  • Raid on Harper's Ferry

    Raid on Harper's Ferry
    The Raid on Harper's Ferry was a attempt by John Brown and his family/friends to help the Union and offset the Confederacy by arming the slaves after raiding the Harper Ferry armory.

  • Election of Lincoln

    Election of Lincoln
    The Election of Lincoln was a key to the outcome of the Civil War. This is because Lincoln's strategic strategy helped the Union overcome the Confederacy.

  • Lincoln Inaugural Address

    Lincoln Inaugural Address
    Lincoln's first inaugural address took place as part of his oath of taking office for his first term.

  • Attack on Fort Sumter

    Attack on Fort Sumter
    The Confederacy opened fire on Fort Sumter from the surrounding harbor. It was taken over and recaptured from the Confederacy after 4 more hours of fighting.

  • Vocabulary

    Sectionalism: Restriction of interest
    Fugitive: Person who escaped from a place or person
    Secede: To leave a alliance
    Popular sovereignty: Gives the citizens of the state the ability to decide for the state
    Border ruffians: a group of people from Missouri ransacking Kansas anti-slavery groups
    Martyr: someone who kills or is killed because of their beliefs
    Secession:the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860
    State’s rights: political powers reserved for the states