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Events leading to the Civil War

By Cecilia Santiago
  • Period: to

    19th Century

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    Henry Clay was a big person during the Missoury Compromise, Missouri: slave state
    Maine: free state
    36’30” Line: Free Above; Slave Below
    The Missouri Compromise was an affort by Congress to defuse the sectional and political rivalries triggered by the request of Missouri late in 1819 for admission as a state in which slavery would be permitted.

  • Wilmot Proviso

    Wilmot Proviso
    Wilmot Proviso Banned Slavery in the Mexican Cession. Fearing the addition of a pro-slave territory, Pennsylvania Congressman David Wilmot proposed his amendment to the bill.

  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    The Compromise of 1850 wasof five bills that the people would pick whether the states would be free or slave.
    California: free state
    New Mexico: slave state
    Texas could be separated into 5 other states
    Ban Slave Trade in Washington DC
    New Fugitive Slave Law
    The "Great Compromiser," Henry Clay, introduced the Compromise of 1850.

  • Kansas- Nebraska Act

    Kansas- Nebraska Act
    The Kansas-Nebrask Act was an 1854 bill included“popular sovereignty”–letting settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders. Proposed by Stephen A. Douglas.

  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas
    John Brwon led the killing of border ruffians.
    Bleeding Kansas was a violent period and a series of violent events in Kansas Territory during the years of 1854 to1858. This violence involved anti-slavery Free-Staters and pro-slavery elements. It started from the signing of Kansas-Nebraska Act until a state constitution was adopted. The Act was meant to create two territories Kansas and Nebraska. One of these states was to become a slave state while the other a free state.

  • Dred Scott Case

    Dred Scott Case
    The Dred Scott case was a famous case involving a slave that was living in Illinois which was a free state. Mr Scott basically sued for their freedom claiming that they were not free and did not win.

  • John Brown's Raid

    John Brown's Raid
    John Brown tried to draw up an army of armed black slaves and lead a slave revolt on the US Arsenal at Harper's Ferry but the US Marines defeated them.