Events Leading To Civil War

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  • Slavery Concern

    Expansion of slavery in territories caused controversy between the NORTH and the SOUTH.
  • Wilmot Proviso

    Wilmot Proviso

    Government tried to prohibit slaveryin the Mexican Cession Territory.
  • Dred Scott Case

    Dred Scott Case

    Dred Scott was a slave that sued for his freedom.
    African Americans were not citizens and could not sue.
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850

    Henry Clay was asked to write the Compromise of 1850. Terms of Compromise that north liked: California admitted as a free state; Slave trade abolished.Terms of the compromise that South liked:Strong fugitive slave law.
  • uncle toms cabin

    uncle toms cabin

    uncle toms cabin.
    story calling for an end to slavery.
  • kansas-nabraska act

    kansas-nabraska act

    people in territories could decide for themselves whether their state would allow slavery.
    people began flooding into kansas and nebraska.
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    Bleeding Kansas

    Small scale Civil War.

  • Lincoln-Douglass Debates

    Lincoln and Doulass debated over slavery.
    Lincoln said slavery was illegal,lost election,but became nationally famous.
  • HARPERS FERRY

    HARPERS FERRY

    Raid on Harper's Ferry.
    -John Brown seized the federal arsenal to stir up a slave revolt in V.A. and end slavery.
  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860

    president election.
    - lincoln promised to keep slabery from spreading.
  • fort sumter

    fort sumter

    first shots were fired.
    put troops on the rio grande.