Road To The Civil War

  • Missouri Compromise

    It split the slave states and the free states
  • Tariff of 1828

    Tariff was passed to help protect industries from the United States.
  • Nullification Crisis

    The Nullification crisis was an attempt to force taxes into other people.
  • War with Mexico

    Treaty of Guadalupe that had territories in there.
  • Compromise of 1850

    It helped resolve the problems about the slaves and the free states.
  • Slave Act

    Slaves were sent back to their owners, even if they were the free states, they were still sent back.
  • Uncle Toms Cabin

    It was a book for abolitionist made my Harriet Tubman. (Anti-Slavery)
  • gadsden purchase

    Agreement between United States and mexico for land it was a treaty.
  • Kansas Nebraska Act

    This caused the creation of the republican party.
  • bleeding kansas

    bleeding kansas was white people killing each other for the slaves
  • John Browns raid

    It was raid that would impact the slaves and it happen in Harpers Ferry
  • Harpers Ferry

    Where John Brown raided the harbor for free slaves.
  • Election of President

    Abraham Lincoln was elected as president and people were scared because he was against slavery
  • Crittenden Compromise

    This was a failed compromise dividing the slave states and free states 36/30
  • Fort Sumter

    Fort Sumter was bombed and President Lincoln was prepared to attack to keep the south in the unION