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