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Civil War Timeline

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    It prohibited slavery in the former lousiana Territory
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed in the United States in September 1850, which defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848).
  • Fugitive Slave Law

    Fugitive Slave Law
    The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory.
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Its a novel. It is credited with helping fuel the abolitionist cause in the 1850s.
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

    The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement, and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by allowing white male settlers in those territories to determine through popular sovereignty
  • Republican Party

    Republican Party
    The republican party is originated
  • Dred Scott vs Sandford

    Dred Scott vs Sandford
    Decided whether african american slaves are counted as american citizens.
  • John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

    They tried to raid and destroy the United States aresenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia
  • Election 1860

    It was the election of the republican party. between abe lincon and john c breckinge
  • First Shots

    These were the first shots of the Civil War in Fort Sumter