Civil Causes Timeline

By 22acharland
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

    admits Missouri as a slave state & Maine as a free state; adds 36 30 line
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850

    admits California as a free state, UT & NM have choice-- "popular sovereignty", enables Fugitive Slave Act
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom's Cabin

    book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe; changes many perspectives, especially those on the fence about slavery
  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas

    mini civil war; abolitionists and slave owners flood into Kansas to try to swing the vote; bloody battle
  • John Brown Attacks

    John Brown Attacks

    madman/hero/martyr; killed slave owners; praised by the North, feared by the South; eventually captured, tried for murder and hanged
  • Lincoln Election

    Lincoln Election

    Lincoln wins election over Breckenridge; upsets south, SC secedes
  • Battle of Fort Sumter

    Battle of Fort Sumter

    Lincoln refused to fire first, confederate fires, war begins