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Events Leading to the Civil War
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Invention of the Cotton Gin
The cotton gin was a machine that was made to seperate the seeds from the cotton. While one man could get one done, this machine could get 50. This made a more greater need for slaves in the south and made America the biggest cotton producer in the world. -
Missourri Compromise
When Missourri was added to the Union as a slave state and was decided that there would be no slave states above 36 degrees North latitude. -
Compromise of 1850
California was added to the Union as a free state, therefore creating an uneven amount of free and slave states. To make things fair, stricter fugutive laws were enforced in the North. This meant that people in the North had to help find runaway slaves, and even freed ones. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This was a novel written about the harshness of slavery. It was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and was a worldwide bestseller. This book turned Europeans on the south when they realized that what they were buying was the product of slave labor. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was an act passed by congress that proclaimed that popular sovereighty would decide the issue of slavery in the Kansas and Nebraska territory. Popular sovereighty was that the society could choose. -
Dred Scott Supreme Court Case
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates
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John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
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Election of Lincoln
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Secession of South Carolina
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Attack on Fort Sumter
