Events Leading to the Civil War

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  • Wilmot Proviso

    Wilmot Proviso
    Congress tried to stop the spread of slavery.
    It failed, but south is concerned.

  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    Helped slave holders recapture runaway slaves. Defused a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the South and the free states of the North.

  • Uncle Toms Cabin

    Uncle Toms Cabin
    Written by Harriet Beacher Stowe. Ended slavery,

  • Kansas Nebraska Act

    Kansas Nebraska Act
    Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opening new lands for settlement and had the effect of repealing the Missouri Compromise.

  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas
    A series of violent political confrontations involving anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery that took place in the Kansas Territory and the neighboring towns of Missouri.

  • Dred Scott Decision

    Dred Scott Decision
    the United States Supreme Court declared that all blacks were not and could never become citizens of the United States.

  • Lincoln–Douglas debates

    Lincoln–Douglas debates
    Seven debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for Senate in Illinois, and the incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.

  • Harper's Ferry

    Harper's Ferry
    Tried to stop slavery. Siezed the federal arsenal.

  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860
    Was a quadrennial election for the office of President of the United States and the immediate impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil War.

  • Fort Sumter

    Fort Sumter
    Third System masonry coastal fortification located in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.