Events Leading To The Civil War

By Karla Samuel

  • Missouri Compromise

  • The Mexican War Ends

  • Fugitive Slave Act Passes

  • The Compromise of 1850

  • Uncle Toms Cabin is published

  • The Kansas-Nebraska Act

  • Bleeding Kansas Riots

    Shocked the Northerners

  • Charles Sumner was attacked

    By Preston Brooks on the U.S Senate floor

  • Dred Scott looses his case to be free

  • Kansas Voters Reject the Lecompton Constitution

  • John Brown Raids Harpers Ferry

  • Abraham Lincoln is elected president

  • Period: to

    Civil War