Event Leading To The Civil War;*

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  • The Fugitive Slave Act;*

    The Fugitive Slave Act;*
    This act forced any federal official who did not arrest a runaway slave liable to pay a fine.
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  • Uncle Tom's Cabin Was Released

    Uncle Tom's Cabin Was Released
    Stowe was an abolitionist who wrote this book to show the evils of slavery.

  • Bleeding Kansas*

    Bleeding Kansas*
    The Kansas Nebraska Act was passed allowing the Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide for themselves using popular sovereignty whether they wanted to be free or slave.

  • Charles Sumner is Attacked*

    Charles Sumner is Attacked*
    Border Ruffians ransacked Lawrence, Kansas which was known to be a staunch free-state area.

  • Dred Scott Decision*

    Dred Scott Decision*
    Dred Scott lost his case proving that he should be free because he had been held as a slave while living in a free state.

  • Lecompton Constitution Rejected*

    Lecompton Constitution Rejected*
    Numerous constitutions were advanced by the territory to make this decision.

  • John Brown Raided Harper's Ferry*

    John Brown Raided Harper's Ferry*
    On October 16, 1859, he led a group of seventeen including five black members to raid the arsenal located in Harper's Ferry, Virginia.

  • Abraham Lincoln Was Elected President*

    Abraham Lincoln Was Elected President*
    With the election of Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln on November 6, 1860, South Carolina followed by six other states seceded from the Union. Even though his views about slavery were considered moderate during the nomination and election, South Carolina had warned it would secede if he won.

  • January 16th - The Senate refuses to consider the The Crittenden Compromise*

    January 16th - The Senate refuses to consider the The Crittenden Compromise*
    The compromise contained six proposals for constitutional amendments, and four proposals for Congressional resolution including the re-application of the north/south boundary from the Missouri Compromise, stated that the federal government could not interfere with slavery where it already existed and could not interfere with the recovery of slaves from any part of the Union.

  • The Texas Legislature votes to secede from the Union*

    The Texas Legislature votes to secede from the Union*
    In the Texas Declaration of Secession it states, "In all the non-slaveholding States, in violation of that good faith and comity which should exist between entirely distinct nations, the people have formed themselves into a great sectional party.