Causes of the Civil War

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  • Missouri Compromise

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  • Thomas Jeffersons Passes away

    Jefferson lived to the age of 83.

  • New York becomes a non slave state

  • Election of Andrew Jackson

  • “Underground Railroad” established

  • Martin van Buren elected President

  • Panic of 1837

  • James K. Polk elected President

  • Zachary Taylor elected President

  • Compromise of 1850 admits California as free state but Fugitive Slave Law enacted

  • Millard Fillmore elected President

  • Franklin Pierce re-elected President

  • James Buchanan elected President

  • Oregon admitted as State

  • Lincoln elected President

  • South Carolina Secedes

  • Virginia Secedes

  • Lincoln shot, dies next day.

  • The surrender at Appomattox Court House