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Events Leading Up To the Civil War

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise

    It prohibited slavery and doubled the size of the United States.
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850

    It was a four year confrontation between the Slave States of the South and the free states of the North during the Mexican American War.
  • Kansas Nebraska Act

    Kansas Nebraska Act

    This act repealed the Missouri Compromise.
  • Brooks Sumner's Incident

    Brooks Sumner's Incident

    Preson Brookes beat Sumner almost to death for talking about his coudin.
  • Harpers Ferry Raid

    Harpers Ferry Raid

    John Brown led 20 men into the small town of Harper's Ferry, Virginia to instigate a major slave operation.
  • Fort Sumter

    Fort Sumter

    This is where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.