road to the civil war

By delanah16@frogtown.net

  • triangle trade

  • Zachary taylor

  • NJ VS. Virgina

  • The three fifths compromise

    Slaves would count as 3/5ths of a person

  • The Great compromise

    Now every state got 2 congressmen

  • missouri compromise

    The compromise that split 11 from 11

  • abolitionists

    Someone who didnt want slavery at all

  • david wilmot

    A congressmen from pennsylvania that wanted slavery banned from the west

  • 3 different views

    some didnt want slavery and some did but others wanted the states to decide on their own.

  • free soil party

    it was democrats who didnt want slavery in the west

  • Slavery was being fought over

    The south and the north were fighting over if slavery gets put in the west

  • The compromise of 1850

    The new compromise

  • fugitive slave act

    The act that made it so that you were fined 1,000 dollars if you didnt turn in a slave on the run

  • Uncle toms cabin

    The book that made northerners know how bad slaves were being treated in the south.

  • kanssas-nebraska act

    the act that made it so that people were fighting for kansas

  • dred scott case

    the case of dred scott

  • lincoln douglas debate

    A series of debate between douglas and lincoln mostly on slavery

  • election of 1860

    The election