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Events leading to the civil war

By Jacksonbergman

  • Kansas-Nebraska act

    Allowed Kansas and Nebraska to have popular sovereignty

  • Wilimot proviso

    The Wilimont proviso was a unsuccessful proposal in 1846, to our law slavery in the new territory gained from mexico

  • Compromise of 1850

    Was a line that said a pro slavery State could not be above it

  • Uncle toms cabin

    A book published on March 20, 1852

  • John browns massacre at pottawatomie creek

    When John brown killed five pro-slavery people

  • Dre’s Scott decision

    Was a decision made by the Supreme Court to send deed Scott back to the south still a slave

  • Lincoln-douglous debate “a house divided against itself canot stand”

    A series of seven debates between Lincoln and Douglas

  • john browns raid at harpers ferry, Virginia

    John brown raided harpers ferry in 1859

  • Abraham Lincoln gets elected as a republican president

    He was elected as a republican president in 1860

  • South Carolina secedes from the union

    South Carolina seceded from the states

  • Confederate states of America

    The confederat states of America was a unrecognized country in North America

  • Confederate troops fire at fort Sumter, South Carolina

    Confederate troops fired at fort Sumter on the night of April 12th,1861