Road to Civil War

By BenGrbic53
  • The compromise of 1850 including the Fugitive Slave Act

    The compromise of 1850 including the Fugitive Slave Act

    5 bills that tried to settle disputes over slavery in the new territories in the U.S.
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act

    A U.S. law that made the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and overturned the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas

    A series of violent civil confrontations in the Territory of Kansas and Missouri between 1854 to 1859.
  • Dred Scott v. Sanford

    Dred Scott v. Sanford

    The Supreme Court upheld slavery in U.S. territories denied the legality of citizenship for black people and declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional.
  • Lincoln-Douglas Debates

    Lincoln-Douglas Debates

    A series of seven debates in 1858 between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican Party candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and incumbent Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate.
  • John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry

    John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry

    An October 1859 attempt by abolitionist John Brown to start a slave revolt by seizing the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860

    Election between Republican: Abraham Lincoln, Southern Democrat: John C. Breckinridge, Constitutional Union: John Bell, Democrat: Stephen A. Douglas. The outcome was Lincoln winning with 39.8%.