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Events Leading Up To The Civil War
The series of events that happened to try and keep the United States from spliting up over slavery but they couldn't find a compromise and it lead to the Civil War. -
Missouri Compromise
A compromise that representative Henry Clay of Kentucky came up with that made the North and South happy. The compromise admitted Missouri a slave state and Maine as a free state which people thought was a good idea. It was also a good idea because the compromise helped the union keep its balance of power between slave and free states. -
Compromise of 1850
Another compromise that was created by Henry Clay that ended the deadlock over California. What it did was that they admitted California as a free state which pleased the northerners and to please the southerns they admitted New Mexico and Utah as slave states. Also Clay's plan ended slave trade in Washington D.C. because they did not want slaves to be sold or bought in the nations capital. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was introduced by senator Stephen A. Douglas. What the act did was that it created two new territories Kansas and Nebraska and it scrapped the Missouri compromise. When it scrapped the Missouri compromise what it did was it left the settlers themselves to vote on wether to permit slavery in the two territories. -
Dred Scott case
A case that chief justice was reviewing and decided that Scott did not have power. They decided that Scott didn't have the power to sue for his freedom in federal court because he was not a citizen. Also that Scott could not become a citizen because he was African american and none of them could become a American citizen. Also that when Scott had a stay in Wisconsinit did not make him a free manbecause the Missouri compromise was unconstitutional. This event angered the Northerners a lot. -
Election of 1860
The republicans were united behind Lincoln during the election while democrats had split between north nominating Stephen Douglas and south supported John C. Breckinridge of Kentucky. Lincoln sailed to victory but in an odd way Lincoln won with 40 percent of the votes and they were all in the north. In 10 southern states Lincoln wasn't even on the ballot and this election angered and worried southerners and that they might try to abolish slavery. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
After Lincoln became president he stated his belief that secession was both wrong and unconstitutional. A month later angered people in South Carolina opened fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor for 33 hours. After the 33 hours of fire the fort lowered their flag and put up a white flag that means that they surrendered.
