Events That Led To The War

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  • The Mexican War Ended

    America got the western teritory after the Mexican war ended but there was a problem, would these be a slave or free state. but then there was the ability of a state to decide whether it would allow slavery was called popular sovereignty.

  • Fugitive Slave Act

    The Fugitive Slave Act was passed as part of the Compromise of 1850. This act forced any federal official who did not arrest a runaway slave liable to pay a fine.This act increased the Underground Railroad activity as fleeing slaves made their way to Canada.

  • Uncle Tom's Cabin Was Released

    Uncle Tom's Cabin or Life Among the Lowly was written in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe. it showed how slave was bad

  • Bleeding Kansas shocked Northerners

    people were killing eachouther to chose if it will be free or slave

  • Charles Sumner is Attacked by Preston on the Floor of the Senate

    violence occurred on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Pro-slavery Congressman Preston Brooks attacked Charles Sumner with a cane after Sumner had given a speech attacking the pro-slavery forces for the violence occurring in Kansas.

  • Dred Scott Decision

    In 1857, Dred Scott lost his case proving that he should be free because he had been held as a slave while living in a free state.

  • Lecompton Constitution Rejected

    When the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed, Kansas was allowed to determine whether it would enter the union as free or slave. Numerous constitutions were advanced by the territory to make this decision. In 1857, the Lecompton Constitution was created allowing for Kansas to be a slave state. Pro-slavery forces supported by President James Buchanan attempted to push the Constitution through the US Congress for acceptance. However, there was enough opposition that in 1858 it was sent back to Kansas for a

  • John Brown Raided Harper's Ferry

    John Brown was a radical abolitionist who had been involved in anti-slavery violence in Kansas. On October 16, 1859, he led a group of seventeen including five black members to raid the arsenal located in Harper's Ferry, Virginia

  • Abraham Lincoln Was Elected President

    South Carolina followed by six other states seceded from the Union.