road to war timeline

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    road to war timeline

  • missouri comp of 1820

    maine entered the U.S.A as a free state
    missouri entered the U.S.A as a slave state
    south of 36,30 open to slavery based on popular soverignty

  • compromise of 1850

    california entered the U.S.A as a free state
    ended the Slave trade in D.C
    Utah/New Mexico open to slavery based on popular soverignty

  • Fugitive slave act

    part of the compromise of 1850
    slave cathers could go north to find runaway/ free slaves and bring them back to the south.
    South loved it/North disliked it

  • kansas-nebraska act

    people could vote on whether or not to keep slavery.
    it violated the missouri comp of 1820
    this act helped prolong our nation to war

  • Republican party formed

    opposition to the Kansas–Nebraska Act
    wanted to save the Union

  • bleeding kansas

    kansas was thought to become a slave state
    was a result of the kansas-nebraska act
    it was the fight between slave and free interes

  • brooks attacks sumner

    Southern Congressman Preston Brooks savagely beats Northern Senator Charles Sumner in the halls of Congress
    because of rise over the expansion of slavery
    brooks became a hero in the south

  • dred scott against sanford

    A slave named dred scott sued for his freddom.
    Chief justice said that dred scott was not a person but property
    this decision nullified the missouri compromise of 1820

  • lincoln douglas debate

    Lincoln lost the Senate race in 1858
    Lincoln beat Douglas out in the 1860 race for the US Presidency
    lincoln was not a abolitionist

  • john browns raid on harpers ferry

    John Brown was a radical abolitionist
    John Brown tried to lead a slave revolt
    it failed and he was captured

  • secession of southern states

    statessaid they would leave if lincoln became president
    11 states had lft the union

  • firing of fort sumter

    South Carolina demanded that the U.S. Army abandon its facilities in Charleston Harbor.
    we just sent ood and medicince

  • lincoln calls volunteers to fight

    president lincoln asked for 75,000 troops to save the union
    Lincoln said south had to be punished
    people were shocked that day