Causes of the Civil War Timeline and Tension Meter

  • MIssourri compromise

    MIssourri compromise
    Missouri became a slave state and Maine became a free
  • Nat Turner's rebellion

    Nat Turner's rebellion
    Nat Turner a african american slave creates a rebellion that spread through many southern plantations in Virgina.
  • Wilmot Proviso

    Wilmot Proviso
    The Wilmot Proviso was a pece of legislation created by david Wilmot. This outlaws slavery in the land gaied by the United States in the Mexican war.
  • The compromise of 1850

    The compromise of 1850
    This compromise ended the expansion of slavery.
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom's Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe creates a book called Uncle Tom's Cabin and it is talks about the life of a slave.
  • Bleeding Kansa

    The nebraska and kansas act banned guns. But 56 people were killed because it was the states choice to have a slave state and a free state. So it divided the people whcich caused bloodshed.