Events Leading to the Civil War Timeline

By Wilesman

  • John Brown's Massacre at Pottawatomie Creek

  • Wilmot Proviso

  • Compromise of 1850

  • "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is first published

  • Kansas - Nebraska Act

    Causing people to vote whether or not this place would be slave or anti slave.
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    Lincoln - Douglas Debate

  • Dred Scott Decision

  • John Brown's Raid at Harpers Ferry, Virginia

    John Harper raided an armory hoping that slaves would some help defend the armory.

  • Abraham Lincoln is elected as a Republican President

    Lincoln was pushing against slavery and as president he could do a lot more about that.

  • Confederate States of America are formed

    The confederate states of america formed.

  • Confederate Troops Fire at Fort Sumter, South Carolina

    One of the first shots of the civil war was fired, north for anti slavery, south for slavery