Road to the Civil War

By bguarini17

  • First Slaves in the US

  • Cotton Gin

    Eli Whitney created the cotton gin

  • Tariff on European goods

    European goods get a tariff

  • Slave import made illegal

    Slave import banned and made illegal

  • Missourri Compromise

  • Fredrick Douglas Speeches

  • Annexation of Texas

    Texas gets annexed and made a part of the US

  • Free Soil Party

    Free Soil Party is created

  • End of M/A WAR

    US Gets the dub against the Mexicans in the Mexican American War.

  • Compromise of 1850

  • Uncle Toms Cabin

    Book "Uncle toms cabin" spreads awareness of slaverey in north and angers the south

  • Kansas Nebraska act

    Nebraska splits into Kansas

  • Bleeding Kansas

    War breaks out in Kansas

  • Dred Scott Case

  • Lincolns Election

    Abraham Lincoln gets Elected

  • Civil War

    Attack on fort Sumpter