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Congress passed a bill that said that Missouri would be a slave state as long as the rest of the Louisiana Purchase was free.
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A rebellion of slaves led by Nat Turner in Virginia killing 55-65 people of which over half were white.
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The Wilmot Proviso was an unsuccessful proposal in Congress to ban slavery in the territory won from Mexico after the Mexican-American War.
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War between Mexico and the U.S so the U.S could expand westward.
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This passed 5 laws that dealt with the issues of slavery and territorial expansion.
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The Fugitive Slave Act was apart of the Compromise of 1850 which stated that if a slave escaped their owner they had to be returned even if in a free state.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin is an anti-slavery novel about life as a slave on a plantation in the south by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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A series of violent confrontation in the Kansas territory between 1854-1859 which started from a debate over the legality of slavery in the territory. As a result Kansas admitted to the Union as a free state.
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This act was passed by Congress in 1854 in which it aloud Kansas and Nebraska to decide if they would be a slave state or a free state.
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The U.S Supreme Court's ruling that living in a free state or territory did not entitle an enslaved person to their freedom in this case it was Dred Scott.
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An abolitionist, John Brown believed he was sent to end slavery. So, he led a raid on an arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Va hoping to initiate a slave revolt in southern states.
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Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th president of the United States of America. He was elected with no southern vote causing the south to secede.
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The first slave state in the south to secede from the Union because they believed Abraham Lincoln was going to free slaves. They also didn't think he was their president because he won with no votes from the south.
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Seven southern states met and seceded from the Union.
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The battle that started the Civil War right out of Charleston, SC.
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A battle in the American Civil War fought in Sharpsburg, MD by the Confederate Army and the Union Army. Won by the Union.
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A battle in the American Civil War, this battle had the largest number of casualties of the entire war often described as the turning point of the war.
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The Siege of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War.
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The Battle of Appomattox Courthouse was one of the last battles of the American Civil War fought.
