Events Leading to Civil War

  • American Colonization Formed

    American Colonization Formed
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    Events leading to civil war

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    They made Maine and Missouri a srate at the same time but Missouri became a slave state and Maine a Non slave state.
  • Antislavery Society formed

    Their main goal is to support the Quakers and free the Black slaves.
  • Liberty Party Formed

    Liberty Party Formed
    Achieve Abolistist ideals through political ways.
  • Wilmot Proviso

    Wilmot Proviso
    Terroterial settle ment with mexico.
  • Mexican American war Starts

    Mexican American war Starts
    America won the war and got californa and new mexico.
  • Free Soil party formed

    Free Soil party formed
    Anti slavery people were making a paper.
  • California Gold Rush

    California Gold Rush
    James Wilson Marshall discovered gold in a river when he was putting in his watermill. This happened in present day Sacremento.
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    Pieces of the land we got from the American and Mexicain war was divieded by the compromise into free and slave states.
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin is published

    Uncle Tom's Cabin is published
    It is a book making slave owners think they are happy but they are not at all.
  • Kansas Nebraska Act

    Kansas Nebraska Act
    It made the north made but made the south keep on trying to make terrotories have slaves.
  • Sumner Brooks Affair

    Sumner Brooks Affair
    Brooks beat the snot out of Sumner so he couldn't walk for 3 years.
  • Dred Scott decision

    Dred Scott decision
    A judge declared free or slave blacks could never be citizens of the United States.
  • Lincoln Douglass debates

    Lincoln Douglass debates
    Lincoln lost but it made him popular enough to win the Precedency in 1860
  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860
    Lincoln won the election but the South was mad about it.