Civil War causes

By Khaos
  • Slavery

    A 'neccessary Evil'
    caused division amongst North & South states
    Forced Labor
  • Period: to

    Civil War Fuses

  • Missouri Compromise of 1820

    Missouri became a slave state
    Maine entered the Union as a Free State
    A boundry was set called the 36' 30" Parallel: North no slavery, South allowed by popular soveriegnty
  • Dred Scott v. Sanford

    Sued on basis that since he was moved to a non-slave territory that he was no more a slave.
    HE lost on technicallity that stated he was propery an since he was owned didnt have human rights.
    Cse violated Compromise of 1820
  • The Compromise of 1850

    California enters as a free state
    End of slave trade in Washington D.C
    poular soveriegnty in Utah & New Mexico
  • Death of the whigs Birth of the Republicans

    Republicans held ground to not allow slavery in teriories
    Republican voted to office in 1860
    Know also as Free Soilers & the Know Knothing Party
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
    showed the horrors of slavery in fictional plantation story.
    The North loved it v. the South banning the book.
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Popular Soveriegnty put to question of slavery in the new territories
    Missoui Compromise is violated
    Pro and anti abolistionists rush to vote on the issue to prohibit or aallow slavey.
  • Bleeding Kansas

    The fight between abolistionists and southerners for the issue of slavery in Kansas.
    Many died.
    Henry Clay died So it was up to Senator Stephen Douglas to work a compromise
  • Lincoln-Douglas Debates

    Congressional debate upon slavery
    Lincoln said no slavew expansion
    Douglas said erase it all.
  • The raid of Harper's Ferry arsenal

    John Brown and his five sons took the arsenal but toppled military
    Slaves did not assist in his revolt thus its failure to keep the arms.
    John Brown is a radical abolistionist and a marytar in the North.
  • Birth of the Conferate States of America

    South Carolina is the 1st state to sucede from the Union
    Many others follow in Febuary 1861
    Based upon Lincoln's election to presidency
  • The bombardment of Fort Sumter

    1st shots fired in official civil war
    Confederacy tries to raid it for arms.
    Lincoln allowed it to be taken.
  • Lincoln's Rally

    CSA forms
    LIncoln sends army in response to attack on Fort Sumter
    Led 1st battle of civil war. Bull Run