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Fugitive Slave Act/Underground Railroad
Republican and Free Soil congressmen regularly introduced bills and resolutions related to repealing the Fugitive Slave Act, but the law persisted until after the beginning of the Civil War (1861-65). -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise settled the question of slavery in the United States for many years. Its repeal would bring about conflict that would lead to the Civil War. -
Abolitionist Movement
The Abolitionist Movement wanted slavery to end. Abolitionist ideas became increasingly prominent in Northern churches and politics beginning in the 1830s. Which contributed between North and South then leaded up the Civil War. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
It change how Americans view slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe's best known novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), changed forever how Americans viewed slavery, the system that treated people as property. It demanded that the United States deliver on the promise of freedom and equality, galvanized the abolition movement and contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War -
John Brown and Bleeding Kansas
Although the Pierce and Buchanan administrations recognized the former, Republicans as well as a number of northern Democrats deemed it a fraud imposed by Missouri “border ruffians.” Civil conflict in Kansas accompanied the political polarization. -
Dred Scott Decision
There were free black slaves in th U.S in 1787.Taney and the other justices were attempting to halt further debate on the issue of slavery in the territories. Then 4 years later Civil War exploded. -
The Election Of Abraham Lincoln
The American Civil War began when Confederate forces under General P.G.T. Beauregard opened fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina. -
The Election 1860
The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860, and served as the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War. -
Southern Seuccession
Secession, as it applies to the outbreak of the American Civil War, comprises the series of events that began on December 20, 1860, and extended through June 8 of the next year when eleven states in the Lower and Upper South severed their ties with the Union.
