Events Leading to Civil War

Wilmot Proviso

Mar 30, 1846

goverment tried to prohibit slavery in mexican cession area

Compromise Of 1850

Mar 30, 1850

Kept balance in slave and free states

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Mar 30, 1852

Book written to promote abolition

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Mar 30, 1854

Created territories of kansas and nebraska opening new lands for settlement

Bleeding Kansas

Mar 30, 1856

People killed ;small scale civil war

Dred Scott Decision

Mar 30, 1857

slave wanted freedon, court denied saying that african americans are not citizens and can't sue .

Lincoln-Douglas debates

Mar 30, 1858

Lincoln-Douglas ran for Senator of Illinois , Lincoln lost

Election of 1860

Mar 30, 1860

Presidential Election ; Lincoln won.

Fort Sumter

Apr 12, 1861

First shots of the civil war fired by south