Events Leading To The Civil War

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  • Wilmot Proviso

    Wilmot Proviso

    Congress tried to stop the spread of slavery .He failed , but South is concerned .
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850

    To help slave holders re-capture slaves . Managed to keep both sides satisfied and not have a permitted split before the war .
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom's Cabin

    This was a story calling for end of slavery .
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act

    This gave the people the right to decide for themselves and many people decided to leave where they orginally stayed to move into Kansas and Nebraska .
  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas

    Small scale war in Kansas .
  • Dred Scott

    Dred Scott

    Dred sued for his freedon , since African Americans were not yet citizens , this decision could not take place . This increased tension between Northern and Southern states .
  • Lincoln-Douglass Debates

    Lincoln-Douglass Debates

    They debated slavery
  • Harper's Ferry

    Harper's Ferry

    John Brown seized the federal arsenal , to end slavery . It was a fail .
  • Electionof 1860

    Electionof 1860

    Voters voted based on section they lived in .
    South seceded .
  • Fort Sumter

    Fort Sumter

    This was the firsat battle , and south opened fire is what set it off .