Events Leading to the Civil War

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    The Missouri Compromise was an effort 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.
    This tensione begain to rise between pro slavery and anit slavery factions within tghe U.S congress. This one one of the reason that the united states had the civil war.
  • abolitionist Movement

    abolitionist Movement
    Abolitionism is a movement to end slavery, whether formal or informal. In Western Europe and the Americas, abolitionism was a historical movement to end the African and Indian slave trade and set slaves free.
  • Fugitive slaved ACT

    Fugitive slaved ACT
    Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.
    This also allowed the slave owers to recapture any slaves that ranaway And when they were f9ound thay could been kiiled or beated. many slaves ranaway to the north fior freedon thsi was call the undergriund railroad. They would leave at night. One important person that was know for this was harrin tuben.
  • Uncle Tom Cabin

    Uncle Tom Cabin
    is an slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, this novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War.Uncle Tom's Cabin was tone of best selling novel of the 19th centurty.
  • john Brown and Bleeding Kansas

    john Brown and Bleeding Kansas
    John brown was born on may 0 1800. He was a white abolitioist.Bleeding Kansas is the term used to described the period of violence during the settling of the Kansas territory.John brown belived in violent overthron the slavery ststem. When this was happing in 1854 Brown and his son went to attack on pro slavery residends.when he did this the North consider him as a hero.
    John brown did not like slaver suporters.
  • Dred scott

    Dred scott
    Mar 06 The Untied states Supreme cout issues a dicision in the Dred Scott. They also said that slaves owner should take there slavesd to the werster territorey. Dred scott was call not a citzies of ther ubtied states.
  • The Election of 1860

    The Election of 1860
    The United States presidential election of 1860 was the 19th quadrennial presidential election. The election was held on Tuesday, November 6, 1860. n 1860, this issue finally came to a head, fracturing the formerly dominant Democratic Party into Southern and Northern factions and bringing Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party to power without the support of a single Southern state.
  • SouthernSuccession

    SouthernSuccession
    When Abraham Lincoln was elected as president in 1860. Southerners thought the government was This outbreak of the American Civil War, comprises the series of events that began on December 20, 1860, and extended through June 8 of the next year when eleven states in the Lower and Upper South severed their ties with the Union.