Top 10 Events That Led To The Civil War

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
09/15/1848	The Mexican War Ended	There was question as to wether or not the new territories that would be admitted as states would be free or slave. The Congress paased the Compromise of 1850 that made California free and allowed people to pick at Utah and New Mexico.
05/01/1850	Fugitive Slave Act	This act was passed as part of the Compromise of 1850. The Fugitve Slave Act required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves.
03/20/1852	Uncle Tom's Cabin Was Released	Uncle Tom's Cabin Was Released was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This book was written to show the injustice of Slavery.
05/01/1854	Bleeding Kansas shocked Northerners	The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed which allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves using popular sovereignty. By 1856, Kansas was full of violence.
05/21/1856	Charles Sumner is Attacked by Preston on the Floor of the Senate	Border Ruffians ransacked Lawrence, Kansas that was known as a stanch-free state area. Pro-slavery Congressman Preston Brooks attacked Charles Sumner after he had given a speech attacking the pro-slavery forces for the violence occurring in Kansas.
05/01/1857	Dred Scott Decision	Dred Scott lost his case proving that he should be free due to being a slave while living in a free state.
07/09/1857	Lecompton Constitution Rejected	Numerous constitutions were advanced in Kansas to determine wether it would join the union as a slave state or a free state. The Lecompton Constitution was created allowing Kansas to eneter as a slave state. However, pro-slavery forces attepmted to stop the Constitution and was soon rejected by a vote in Kansas.
10/16/1859	John Brown Raided Harper's Ferry	John Brown was a radical abolitionist. On October 16, 1859, he led a group of 17 members, including 5 blacks, to Harper's Ferry, Virginia, to raid the arsenal.
11/06/1860	Abraham Lincoln Was Elected President	Republican canidate Abraham Lincoln was elected President. South Carolina, along with 6 other states, seceded from the Union. South Carolina warned Abraham Lincoln that this would happen if he was elected. The South had began to become more powerful and wanted to make sure that slavery would not be extended to other states/territories.
02/04/1861	Confederate States of America Formed	The South was enraged at Lincoln's election. Acting against this, the Southern states began to form a seperate Confederacy against the union.