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Compromise of 1850
This compromise prevented further expansion of slavery while strengthening the Fugitive Slave Act,. This helped cause the Civil War because it led people to communicate more about slavery. -
Harriet Tubman becomes a conductor on the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman becomes a conductor on the Underground Railroad, which slaves over 300 slaves. The Undergeround Railroad was a secret network of houses where slaves hid. This enraged many white slave owners because they were losing their slaves, which made it a cause of the cilvil war. -
Fugitive Slave Act is passed
The Fugitive Slave Act fined or jaieds people who helped, hid or gave shelter to runaway slaves. This is a cause of the civil war, because it make anti-slavery people become very angry, and helped light a fire beneath them to later start a war. -
Harriet Bleacher Stowe publishes "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Uncle Tom's Cabinw as a book that Harriet Bleacher Stowe wrote after she took a trip down to the south. She realized the horrors of slavery, and wrote about it. Her book, becoming a best seller all around the nation, opened the eyes of people all of the United States turning many of them against slavery, which was a cause of the Civil War, -
Kansas-Nebraska Act is approved
The Kansas Nebraska Act was approved by Congress. This law allowed people to decide and vote on whether they wanted slavery or not within their terriotry, People rush to Kansas to vote, and pro-slavery forces win with the majority vote. This only turns the forces more against each other, helping lead to a war. -
Charles Sumner is Attacked by Preston on the Floor of the Senate
Pro-slavery Congressman Preston Brooks attacks Charles Sumner with his cane after Sumner had given a speech attacking the pro-slavery forces for the violence occurring in Kansas while everyone was trying to vote whether it should be free or slave territory. -
Dred Scott Desicion
The Dred Scott Desicion says that being in a free territory did not make a slave free, garunteed the extension of slavery, and declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional. This helped cause the civil war because it only extensed the problem of slavery. -
John Brown attacks the arsenal at Harpers Ferry, VA.
Local troops and Robert E. Lee kill 10 men, which were both white and black, which was an attempt to start a slave uprising, For leading the rebellion, John Brown was hung, and his dead body was left on diaplay for two days to scare the people out of rebelling slavery. This was a cause of the Civil War because it was a cruel act of violence which infurated poeple, -
Lincoln is elected president
Lincoln was elected president in 1860. This effected slavery because he thought slavery was immoral and based on greed. He wanted legislation to outlaw slavery, which eventually happened. -
Lincoln is elected President
Abraham Lincoln is elected president in 1860 which scares many Southerners because he is anti-slavery. This helped cause the civil war because it caused even more controversey over anti and pro slavery.
