events leading to civil war

  • Lincoln-douglous debates

    Lincoln-douglous debates
    -Slavery was wrong but legal. -Should not expand lincoln lost election
  • uncle Toms Cabin

    uncle Toms Cabin
    -Stop slavery from happening -Free people belong to anyone it had divided the north and the south.
  • Dred Scott

    Dred Scott
    -slaves were sued for freedom -slaves were property, people who owned them say "YOU ARE OUR PROPERTY YOU CAN NOT BE FREE BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT A CITIZEN."
  • compromise of 1850

    compromise of 1850
    -slaves being sold to washinton D.C -Jhon Adams, Jhon Carhoun, and Daniel Webster look for some materials for the war to be hold
  • fuditive slave law

    fuditive slave law
    -if a slave comes knocking on your door you take it back to the law -some slaves are running away from the law they say that they will never get caught but when they go to one reandom house they think that the human would keep them safe but the humans have a choice. Take slave back and get money, or keep slave and go to jail. The answer is ovious.
  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860
    -the voters voted mostly based on which part of the country they lived in. -promised to keep slavery from spreeding into the new territories.
  • Harpers Ferry

    Harpers Ferry
    -seized the federal arsencal. -plan-stir up a slave revolt in virginia and end slavery.
  • Wilmot proviso

    Wilmot proviso
    -Try to stop slavery from happening. -It is scaring the slave owners from happening. They say that all the people agree with every-one that slaves should be stop then, that means that every slave owner will have no slaves.
  • Kansas Nebraska

    Kansas Nebraska
    -People desided that they want things to go back to normal -Some people said that they want to putthings back to normal
  • FORT SUMPTER

    FORT SUMPTER
    -On april 10,1861 the profecional confederate forces at Charelstion. -On april 12 1862, confedrerate batteries opened fire which was unable to reply effectively.
  • bleeding kansas

    bleeding kansas
    -alot of people killed each other -small war that erupted