civil war or someting

  • Missouri Comprimise

    Missouri Comprimise

    The north gets Maine and all the land above the 36 30 line, and the South gets Missouri and everything below the 36 30 line
  • Nat Turner's rebellion

    Nat Turner's rebellion

    Slaves led a rebellion by killing their slave owners & their families, causing everyone involved to be executed and stricter restrictions upon slaves
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850

    California is introduced as a free state, and the slave trade is banned in D.C, and every state in the Mexican Cession and stronger fugitive slave laws would be passed
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Written by Harriet Beecher Stowe with the purpose of showing the horrors of slavery. It caused many northerners to become abolitionists.
  • Kansas Nebraska Act

    Kansas Nebraska Act

    They divided the land up into Kansas and Nebraska, and they would decide if it was a slave or a free state by popular sovereignty
    this led to "Bleeding Kansas" because slavery was no longer banned, making northerners outrage, turning it into a battleground over slavery
  • Dred Scott Ruling

    Dred Scott Ruling

    They had ruled that African Americans were not citizens, ruling them a property meaning living on free land did not make you free.
    Also meant that they couldn't sue
  • John Brown's raid

    John Brown's raid

    The raid was at Harpers Ferry, Virginia to get guns. He was captured and then charged with murder, treason and conspiracy
  • 1860 Election

    1860 Election

    Abraham Lincoln was elected president, because of this many southern states had started to leave. His first act as president was to make it illegal to secede. then the civil war broke out and yada yada