Pre Civil War Events

  • missouri compromise

    missouri compromise

    .missouri became a slave state
    .maine is a free state
    .36 30 line
  • wilmot proviso

    wilmot proviso

    banned slavery in mexican territories aquired by mexico.
  • dred scott decision

    dred scott decision

    the supreme court ruled that dred scott was not free while he was in the north with his owner because he is meer property which cant be taken by a person
  • california statehood

    california statehood

    when california became a free state
  • fugitive slave law

    fugitive slave law

    law that stated if slaves ran away to the north the northerners had to return them to their owners
  • uncle tom's cabin published

    uncle tom's cabin published

    A writer saw a slave named uncle tom whipped to death but before he died he forgave the white man.
  • onsted manifesto

    onsted manifesto

    the reson for U.S to purchase cuba from spain
  • Kansas nebraska act

    Kansas nebraska act

    slavery is decided by popular vote
  • Raid on Lawrence, Kansas

    Raid on Lawrence, Kansas

    when an abolitionist group attacked Lawrence which was the slave capital of kansas.
  • Charles Sumner beaten

    Charles Sumner beaten

    when senator preston brooks beat charles sumner for speaking against slavery
  • john brown invades pottowatamie kansa

    john brown invades pottowatamie kansa

    john brown and his company of free state volunteers murdered five men settled along the pottawatomie creek in southeastern kansas
  • lincoln-douglas debate

    lincoln-douglas debate

    they debated over slavery problems
  • harpers ferry raid

    harpers ferry raid

    when john brown took over the arsenal in harpers ferry and tried to inspire a slave revolt
  • abraham lincoln elected president of the united states

    abraham lincoln elected president of the united states

    when abraham lincoln became the 16th president of the U.S.
  • south carolina secedes

    south carolina secedes

    south carolina secedes because lincoln became president
  • fort sumnter attack

    fort sumnter attack

    the first battle of the civil war