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Road to the Civil War Timeline
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Missouri Compromise of 1820
Missouri was entering as a slave state, this started abig argument. During the argument Maine entered as a free state. The compromise created a longitudinal line across the U.S. This seperated the territories, any new state north of the line had to be a free state. Any new state to the south of the line had to be a slave state. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
Nat Turner was a black American slave who led a very effective slave rebellion. This rebellion set off a whole new wave of oppressive movement and assembly of slaves and stiffened proslavery. This persisted antiabolitionist convictions in that region until the Civil War. -
Compromise of 1850
California entered as a free state, also the strict fugitive slave aact was formed. This led to sectional tensions between the North and South because the fugitive slave act made Northerners very unhappy. Now they can get in big trouble for helping slaves. The Southerners are very happy now. -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Unce Tom's Cabin was a novel showing how terrible slavery was. It was a true story about a slave who was whipped to death. This book changed how Northerners thought about slavery. The South thought that they were unjustified. -
Start of Republican Party
The Republican Party was to oppose the spread of slavery into western territories. The party was mostly made up of Northerners, because if a Republican president is voted in. Than most of the states forming will become free states to the west. Also, there was now a party that opposed slavery fully, not just a split. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Allowed people in the Kansas and Nebraska territory to decide wether they wanted to allow slavery or not within there borders. Anti-slavery activists viewed this as more to helping the slave states. The Act served to revokethe Missouri Compromise of 1820. -
Brooks Attacks Sumner
On May 22, 1856 Preston Brooks severely beat Charles Sumner with a cane. Charles was attacking pro-slavery senators such as Andrew Butler (relative of Brooks). They were not able to vote Brooks out of senator. This spread out the North and South even more because a Southern beat up a Northern. -
Dred Scott Decision
In 1857, there was a supreme court case in which a slave, Dred Scott, sued for his freedom and lost. This case was brought into question in power over slavery in the territories. This shows that the supreme court thought of slaves as property, not as citizens. This case decision is considered the most racist ruling every in the supreme court. -
Raid on Harpers' Ferry
In 1859, John Brown, a radical abolitionist, carried his anti-slavery campaign into Harpers' Ferry, Virginia. He wanted to lead a revolt by breaking into an arsenal, but no other slaves showed up. He was then capetured and sentenced to death. Brown’s raid helped make any further talk between the North and South nearly impossible and thus became an important part of the Civil War. -
Election of 1860
The democrats split into two, the Northern Democrats and the Southern Democrats. The Constitutional Union was created to keep the two together, but that didn't work. Abraham Lincoln was voted in because the North outnumbered the South.
