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Events in the 1800s Leading to the Civil War
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The Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise was crafted by Henry Clay of Kentucky. This compromise admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as free state. This helped maintain the balance of power between slave and free states. In addition, a line was drawn at 36°30' parallel, below which slavery would be allowed. Above this line, slavery was prohibitied. This event led to war because the people recognized that the compromise did not settle the future of slavery. -
The Missouri Compromise
recognized that the compromise did not settle the future of slavery and that America cannot be half free and half slave, -
The Compromise of 1850
made it easier to find and reclaim runaway slaves. This lead to the civil war as the Abolitionists disobeyed the laws and operated the underground railroad, freeing even more slaves. Together they freed a lot of people. -
The Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as a free state which pleased the north. New Mexico and Utah was organized as territories open to slavery that would please the South. The Compromise allowed the southwestern territories to be set up with no rescrition on slavery. The compromise ended the slave trade in D.C. and passed a strong fugitive slave law which made it easier to find and reclaim runaway slaves. -
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act outraged northerners because it violated the Missouri Compromise. This act built a railroad to California. Because the territory lay north of the Missouri Compromise, the act said noting about slavery.This act also created two new terriotories which scraped the Missouri Compromise by leaving it up to settlers whether to permit slavery. Slaveowners from Missouri crossed the border so that they could vote for slavery to exist in Kansas. Seeing this, abolitionists from other -
The Kansas-Nebraka Act
abolitionists from other parts of the country came to vote "no" and prohibit slavery in the territory. These people eventually clashed, with many murders and massacres taking place. It earned Kansas the nickname "Bleeding Kansas” -
The Dred Scott Desicon
The Dred Scott descion delightned slaveholders. They hoped that, at long last, the issue of slavery in the territories had been settled and in their favor. The Dred Scott Decision helped lead to the Civil War because it caused fighting between the North and South. The North was angry because people in the north had decided not to allow slavery in their states, and the Dred Scott decision allowed slaves to be brought into their states. The Dred Scott decision basically said that if a slave was br -
The Dred Scott Desicion
brought into their states. The Dred Scott decision basically said that if a slave was brought to a free state they were still a slave because they were property. So even a free state wasn't really free. Most southerners were happy with the decision because it allowed them to take slaves with them to free states and territories and reinforced the idea that slaves had no rights as U.S. citizens. Dred Scott's case caused more trouble between the North and South. -
The Election of 1860
The 1860 presidential race showed how divided the nation had become.While the Repbulicans were united behind Lincoln, the Democrats had split between the northern and southern factions.With this opposition Licoln sailed to victory. He won 40% of the votes. The people relized that the Republicans just defeated two other major parties this made some people very angry. The election of 1860 caused the Civil War because the Republicans took over the executive branch. The Democrats in the south wanted -
The Election of 1860
slavery and the Republicans did not. When Abraham Lincoln took over, he set to demolish slavery all together. -
Attack on Fort Sumter
The first opening shots of the Civil War was fired at Fort Sumter. No one was killed in the 33-hour bombardment. It was a bloodless opening to the bloodiest war in American history. After 33 hours of heavy shelling, the defenders of the fort hauled down the Stars and Stripes and replaced it with the white flag of surrender. This lead to war, it was the first battle in the civil war. There was so much conflict that it finally came to relization that they would have to fight a war to end slavery.
