Civil War Events

The Missouri Compromise

Dec 2, 1820

Pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions within the U.S. Congress and across the country.

Compromise of 1850

Dec 2, 1846

It consisted of laws admitting California as a free state.

The Mexican War

Dec 2, 1846

The Mexican War was the first US armed fight faught on forgine soil.

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Dec 2, 1850

Acted as a law allowing the capture and return of run away slaves.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

May 30, 1854

allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.

Bleeding Kansas

Dec 2, 1854

was a series of violent political confrontations in the United States involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery

‘Bleeding Sumner’ Brooks-Sumner fight

Dec 2, 1856

Massachusetts was an avowed Abolitionist and leader of the Republican Party. After the sack of Lawrence, on May 21, 1856, he gave a bitter speech in the Senate called "THE CRIME AGAINST KANSAS."

Dred Scott Decision

Dec 2, 1857

Made it where African Americans couldnt be citizens.

John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry, Virginia

Dec 2, 1859

Abolitionist John Brown leads a small group on a raid against a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia