Causes of Civil War

By michael bourdeau
  • missouri compromise

    missouri compromise

    Missouri would be a slave state but the rest of the Lousiana Purchase would be free states.
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850

    North gets: Californa becomes a Free state. South gets: Texas gets 10 Million.
  • Fugitive Slave Law

    Fugitive Slave Law

    When Slaves escaped to the North people couldnt house them but had to return them to the south to their owners.
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin publication

    Uncle Tom’s Cabin publication

    A book written by a slave that describes all the terrible conditions of being a slave.

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

    Both of these states open up new land for settlement.

  • Birth of the Republican Party

    Republicans take Michigan after they become a party.

  • Dred Scott v. Sanford

    Judges decicded that Southern slave owners could come up to the north and take their slaves back.

  • John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry

    John Brown raided a northern ship called Harpers Ferry.
  • election of 1860

    election of 1860

    A few weeks after South Carolina succeded from the union

  • Shots at Fort Sumter

    First Shots of the civil war.