Events Leading Up To The Civil War

  • Period: to

    19th Century

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

    misouri wanted a slave state and mane wanted a free state
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act

    it made territories for kanasa and nebraska that popular sovereignty would decide the issue of slavery
  • compromise of 1850

    compromise of 1850

    it was 5 bills passed which would defuse a four year confrontation form the slaves in the south and the north
  • Wilmot Proviso

    Wilmot Proviso

    It banned slavery in the mexican cession
  • bleeding kanas

    bleeding kanas

    it is called bleeding kanas because of all the blood that was shed between the pro- and anti slavory
  • dred scott case

    dred scott case

    he sued for his freedom and the supreme court said that he was property and not free and then the 5th amendment protected to right to own properity and called it uncontitonal
  • john browns raid

    john browns raid

    jonh brown and 18 other guys were going to attack a base that held slaves and arm them for rebeillion