Events Leading to the Civil War

By G0505516

  • Wilmot Proviso

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

  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    1. California was a free state
    2. D.C.No more slave trade

  • Uncle Toms Cabin

    Uncle Toms Cabin
    Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this book
    Wanted to end slavery

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act
    A law passed that tried to solve the problem in the western territories about slavery

  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas
    Small scale civil war in Kansas
    Wanted to end slavery

  • Lincoln-Douglass Debates

    Lincoln-Douglass Debates
    Debating over slavery.
    Douglass won

  • Dred Scott Decision

    Dred Scott Decision
    Aferican americans were not citizens and could not sue
    Dred Scott lost his caes

  • Harper's Ferry

    Harper's Ferry
    A slave revolt
    Wanted to end slavery

  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860
    A presidential election
    Lincoln Won

  • Fort Sumter

    Fort Sumter
    Start of the Civil War
    First shots were fired