Events Leading to Civil War.

  • Wilmot Proviso

    Wilmot Proviso

    Want to bsm slavery in the Mexican cession territory outwest, excluding Texas. Texas already had slavery so they weren't going to mess with Texas. Was the first of the Free-Soil Party. Was the first poiltical party decicated to stopping the expamsiom of slavery.
  • Compromise Of 1850

    Compromise Of 1850

    1.Admission of CA as a free state.
    2.Slave being sold in DC. (near our capital representing freedom)
    3.Utah and New Mexico beig admitted as slvae state.
    4.Fuitve salve laws during this time. Did not went to war things kept peace of almost 30 years.
  • Fugitive Slave Law

    Fugitive Slave Law

    To help slaveholders recapture runaway slave. They managed to keep both sides satfied and prevented apermanent split before the civil war.
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Story calling for an end to slavery. North decided; salvary is hobbible, cruel and unacceptable.
    South; felt like was Yankee Abolitonist Propaganda=
    North was lying about slavery.
  • Kansas Nebraska Act

    Kansas Nebraska Act

    People in the terriories could decide for them seives (popular sovereighty) whether their state would allow slavery people began flooding into Kansas and Nebraska. It led to Bleeding Kansas.
  • Bleeding Kanasas

    Bleeding Kanasas

    pro salvery and a lot of people got shot. a small civil war.
  • Dred Scott

    Dred Scott

    Slave sued for his freedm
    African American were not citizen and could not sue slave or property. Increased the between the Northern and Southern state.
  • Lincoln -Douglas Bebates

    Lincoln -Douglas Bebates

    Lincoln and Douglass Debated slavery Lincoln slavery was wrong but legal. Should not expanded.Lincoln lost then election, but became nationally famous.
  • Harper's Ferry

    Harper's Ferry

    John Brown selzed the federal arsenal. Stirup a slave revolt in Virgina and end slavery. Brown became a martyr (hero) in the cause.
  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860

    Mostly based on which section of country they livedin. promise to keep slavery from spreading into the new territories.
  • Fort Sumter

    Fort Sumter

    Uncoin notified davis he was sending supplies to the fort. South open fire Union had to surrender.