Civil war

What led to the Civil War

By acecchettikams

  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    The south and north compromised, the north entered California as a free state and the south upheld popular sovereignty (tied to states’ rights) in New Mexico and Utah. Also the sale of slaves was band in Washington DC because we are a free country and we should not be selling people in our capital. (It looks bad for visitors)

  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Fugitive Slave Act
    It made it so that all citizens had to help catch all runaway slaves. They also had special courts set up for these cases. The judges earned $10 for sending a slave back to the south and $5 for setting them free.

  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin Published

    Uncle Tom’s Cabin Published
    Uncle Tom’s cabin is an anit-slavery bestselling book written by Herriot Beacher stow. She was inspired to write it after the Fugitive Slave Act.

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act
    Stephen Douglas proposes the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. It would divide the unorganized territory into two parts.

  • Dred Scott Decision

    Dred Scott Decision
    Dred Scott and his family sued for their freedom from their former master. In 1856 the case reached the Supreme Court, and in1857 the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 against Dred Scott.

  • John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry

    John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
    It was an attempt by the white abolitionist John Brown to start an armed slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown's raid, accomplished by 20 men in his party, was defeated by a detachment of U.S. Marines led by Col. Robert E. Lee.

  • Abraham Lincoln Elected President

    Abraham Lincoln Elected President
    Lincoln’s ambition to become undisputed leader of the Republicans in Illinois began to evolve into a desire to run for the Republican nomination for president. The election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency in 1860 is commonly viewed as the beginning of a chain of events that erupted into civil war in April 1861.

  • South Carolina Secedes from Union

    South Carolina Secedes from Union
    The white population of South Carolina, long before the American Civil War, strongly supported the institution of slavery. On December 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first Southern state to declare its secession and later formed the Confederacy.