Cw

events leading to the civil war

  • Wilmot Proviso

    Wilmot Proviso

    trying to band slavery in the mexican cession
    DIDN'T HAPPEN It is the first time the u.s tried
  • FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW

    FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW

    Made to hlp slaveholders recapture runaway slaves. this kept both sides satistfied.
  • COMPROMISE OF 1850

    COMPROMISE OF 1850

    admission of CA as a free state. slaves being sold in DC. Utah and New Mexico being admitted as slave states. fugitive slave laws during this time. keep the balance between slave and free state.
  • UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

    UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

    story calling for an end to slavery caused tension between north and south
  • KANSAS NEBRASKA ACT

    KANSAS NEBRASKA ACT

    Popular sovereignty decide weather their state allowed slavery. people began flooding into kansas and nebraska
  • BLEEDING KANSAS

    BLEEDING KANSAS

    small scale civil war in KANSAS
  • DRED SCOTT

    DRED SCOTT

    Slave who sued for his freedom
    african americans were not considered citizens. increased the tension between the northern and southern states.
  • LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS DEBATES

    LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS DEBATES

    Lincoln- slavery was wrong but legal.Should not be expanded. Lincoln lost the election but became nationlly famous.
  • ELECTION of 1860

    ELECTION of 1860

    Lincoln promised to keep slavery from spreading into the new teritories. Lincoln won the election.
  • FORT SUMTER

    FORT SUMTER

    south opened fire on the nortth. north surrendered. WAR HAD BEGUN!
  • HARPER'S FERRY

    HARPER'S FERRY

    John Brown seized the federal arsenal.
    PLAN= stir up a slave revolution in Virginia and end slavery. (didn't work) he became a hero
  • YAYY!

    YAYY!

    JHYREL FOUNTAINE FINSHED!! LOL :)