civil war timeline

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

    the act that made states above Missouri non slave states and under it slave states
  • Wilmot Proviso

    Wilmot Proviso

    in 1848 four new free states and four new non free states were admitted it the united states
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850

    in September 1850 5 bills were passed that defused the political confrontation of slave and free states
  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Fugitive Slave Act

    an act passes that made it so anywhere in the us slave owners could capture there escaped slaves
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin

    Uncle Tom’s Cabin

    a book made in 1852 from a slave and it told the struggles of slavery and how it was
  • bleeding kansas

    bleeding kansas

    the outbreak of violent warfare in Kansas killing lots of people
  • Dred Scott Case

    Dred Scott Case

    a case in the supreme court about how scot could not sue because he was black
  • Lincoln Douglas Debate

    Lincoln Douglas Debate

    debates between lincoln and senator Douglas to reaffirm his support for popular sovereignty
  • John Brown’s Raid

    John Brown’s Raid

    john brown planed a raid on a armoury and wanted to gather lots of slaves to help but he could not get enough to help and lots the raid
  • Lincoln’s Election of 1860

    Lincoln’s Election of 1860

    the election demonstrated the divisions of the us before the civil war and how it impacted and started it because lincoln wanted to end slavery but the south did not want to so they were not happy
  • Southern Secession

    Southern Secession

    after the election of lincoln, the south was not happy and they wanted to keep slavery a thing so states started to leave the us to form there own union were there was slavery and it was the start a cause of the civil war