Events Leading To The Civil War

By NEECOLAE
  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

    Missouri becomes a slave state, Maine becomes free. And the Louisiana Purchase territory line goes from the Mississippi Delta to what is now the Canadian border of North Dakota and past the northern border of what is now Montana.
  • Nat Turner Rebellion

    Nat Turner Rebellion

    Was basically slaves that rebelled and together they killed 55-61 white slave owners. All involved were executed and there were harsher punishments for slaves.
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850

    California becomes free and slave trade is banned in D.C, South gets rest of the Mexican Cession and stronger fugitive slave laws
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Showed how brutal it was for slaves and it brought more abolitionists.
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Divides land into 2 territories Nebraska and Kansas. Decided by popular sovereignty.
  • Dred Scott Ruling

    Dred Scott Ruling

    What the Dred Scott Ruling basically said was that "enslaved people were not citizens of the U.S"
  • John Brown's raid

    John Brown's raid

    Brown and his men captured citizens and went after federal armory and arsenal. Location was Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, John Brown was executed.
  • 1860 Election

    1860 Election

    The winner was Abraham Lincoln, He decided to make a law that made secession illegal, They later have formed the Confederate States of America