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Events Leading to the Civil War

By lbing9311

  • The Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri Compromise
    Missouri CompromiseMissouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state, preserving the Congressional balance. A line was also drawn through the unincorporated western territories along the 36⁰30 parallel, dividing north and south as free and slave.

  • The Compromise of 1850

    The Compromise of 1850
    Compromise of 1850The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). The compromise, drafted by Whig Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky and brokered by Clay and Democratic Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois, reduced sectional conflict. Controversy arose over the Fugitive Slave provisio

  • The Kansas-Nebraska Act

    KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACTThe Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed for new territories to decide if they were a free or slave state by popular sovereignty. The Kansas-Nebraska Act undid the compromise that was made in the Missouri Compromise, which designated a line of latitude to be the separation of free and slave states. The Kansas-Nebraska act reignited the disagreement between pro and anti slavery factions. Fighting and violent events would become so terrible that it was termed, Bleeding Kansas.

  • Dred Scott v. Sandford

    Dred Scott v. Sandford
    Supreme Court DecisionDred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857), was a landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court held that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court, and that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal territories acquired after the creation of the United States.

  • South Carolina Secession

    South Carolina Secession
    Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election in 1860. On December 20, 1860, a little over a month after the polls closed, South Carolina seceded from the Union. Six more states followed by the spring of 1861.

  • The Battle of Fort Sumter

    The Battle of Fort Sumter
    Fort Sumter - Summary and OverviewThe Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12–14, 1861) was the bombardment and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that started the American Civil War. Following declarations of secession by seven Southern states, South Carolina demanded that the US Army abandon its facilities in Charleston Harbor.