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events leading up to the cilver war

By keisha

  • kansas-nabraska act

    kansas-nabraska act
    KANSAS NABRASKA The Great Plains area west of Missouri and Iowa was a refuge for thousands of Indians, but white settlers learned that these vast expanses offered opportunities for farming and ranching. The natives had no effective champions and would have to be forced to give way to the whites' start.

  • dred scott decision

    dred scott decision
    dred scott caseIn March of 1857, the United States Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, declared that all blacks were not and could never become citizens of the United States. The court also declared the 1820 Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, permiting slavery in all of the country's territories.
    The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin be

  • lincoln vs. doulas

    lincoln vs. doulas
    LICOLN VS. DOUGLAS lincoln and douglas were fighting agaist slavery douglas wanted slavery and lincoln wanted to end slavery!

  • lincoln wins presidency

    lincoln wins presidency
    <a href='http://history1800s.about.com/.../presidentialcampaigns/.../1860el...' >the election of 1860<a> he ran against s. douglas.

  • confederate states of america formed

    confederate states of america formed
    states formed the goverment would not let slavery in the new teritories.

  • the south sucedes

    the south sucedes
    suoth sucedesthe south suceeded for one reason to perpetuate the instituion of slavery.