Civil War Events

  • Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri Compromise was an argument between the Slave States and the Free States. They was trying to keep peace but they are two opposite thing and it wasnt working out. The Slave State ended when the Civil War happened.
  • Mexican War

    Americans had a war with Mexico to gain land which was to expand the land to From Texas to California. The war lasted two years which was from 1846 to 1848.
  • Dred Scott Decision

    Dred Scott went to trial to sue so he can have his freedom. Years later on the court said that slaves cant sue in court anymore.
  • Compromise of 1850

    This Compromise was a group of people over slavery was invented in America. It tried to make more Free States instead of more Slave States.
  • Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

    It is saying that if a slave runs away form the owner to a free state that the owners could retrieve them and make them come back home.
  • Bleeding Sumner Brooks- Sumner fight

    They both fought over slavery because they had diffrent opinions and they got into it all over slavery and Sumner lost.
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    It is an act that allowed the settlers of a terrority to decide whether slavery should exist in the country. It pretty much caused the civil war..
  • Bleeding Kansas

    It starts in 1854 and ended in 1861. It was a bunch of violent political argument involving anti- slavery.
  • John Browns Raid on Haropers Ferry, Virginia

    They was planning a raid or attack and he hope the slaves joined him bc they didnt care if the slaves dies. They took out the small engines and after that thye tried to take out the engine house. He was entenced to death the same year