Events Leading Up to the Civil War

By caseyarritt
  • Invention of the Cotton Gin

    Invention of the Cotton Gin

    Radically changed the South. Changed from a slave being able to de-seed cotton from 1 pound a day to 50 pounds a day. This sprouted growth of slavery and cotton farms moving west in the south.
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    Missouri Compromise

  • Dred Scott Supreme Court Case

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    Compromise of 1850

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin Published Date

    Uncle Tom's Cabin Published Date

    Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book written by Harriet Betcher Stowe, a housewife. That showed the bad things about slavery and was world-wide. Turning the world againist the South.

  • Kansas/Nebraska Act

  • Lincoln-Douglas Debate

    Lincoln-Douglas Debate

    Held in Illinos, tencially Douglas won the debate but Lincoln benefitted too. Lincoln got his name out and became well known after this debate.
  • John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry

    John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry

    John Brown was a radical abolitionist. When he went to Kansas he was a focal point of the violence that happened there. He attacked a government with about 20 other people. He was hoping other slaves would join him but almost no one did. He was soon captured and after a trial, hung.

  • Presidential Election of Lincol

  • Secession of South Carolina

  • Attack on Fort Sumter

    Attack on Fort Sumter

    The First shots of the civil war shot in Fort Sumter, South Carolina.