Section 1 : Towards Civil War

By Karolyne S.

  • Missouri Compromise

    Congress tried to calm down the political and sectional rivalries angered by the request of Missouri to become a state where slavery would be allowed. https://www.history.com/topics/abolotionist-movement/missouri-compromise

  • Compromise of 1850

    Senator Henry Clay came up with resolutions to have a compromise and prevent a war between the North and South. Also the Fugitive Slave Act was revised and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was stopped. https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/compromise1850.html

  • ¨Bleeding Kansas¨-Sacking of Lawrence

    Bleeding Kansas was a couple of violent meetings in the United States which changed from a ideological and political debate over to legalizing slavery in the almost state of Kansas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleeding_Kansas

  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress. It allowed the people in Kansas and Nebraska territory to decide whether or not to allow slavery in their land. The Act served to revoke the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which didn't allow slavery north of latitude 36°30´. http://www.historyplace.com/lincoln/kansas.htm

  • Dred Scott Decision

    The United States Supreme Court made a decision in the Dred Scott case. It said slave owners can take their slaves into non-slavery territories. Making it cancel the belief of popular sovereignty and making it harder for the newly created Republican Party. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dred-scott-decision

  • Lincoln-Douglas Debate

    There were seven Lincoln–Douglas debates between Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate for the United States Senate, and Senator Stephen Douglas, the Democratic Party candidate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln%E2%80%93Douglas_debates

  • Raid on Harpers Ferry (John Brown)

    John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was done by John Brown to start an armed slavery rebel by taking over an arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown%27s_raid_on_Harpers_Ferry

  • Election of Lincoln

    Lincoln won the election against Douglas, in the November 1860 election. Douglas represented the Northern fraction of the divided Democratic Party. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/abraham-lincoln-elected-president

  • Lincoln Inaugural Address

    The first inaugural address Abraham Lincoln sent was in 1861. It was part of his promise to the office for his first term as the President of the United States.

  • Attack on Fort Sumter

    The Battle of Fort Sumter was near Charleston, South Carolina. The Confederate States Army, and the return gunfire and surrender by the United States Army, that started the American Civil War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Sumter