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Missouri Compromise
The Missouri Compromise maintained the balance between slave and free states in the Senate. Also, it calmed down the debate over slavery. This helped lead to Civil War because it added more tension between the free and slave states. -
Nat Turner's Rebelloin
This was a slave rebellion led by Nat Turner where He and other slaves killed around 55 to 65 people. This was the highest number of deaths caused by any slave in the South. They killed every white in sight. -
Wilmot Proviso- 1847-1850
The Wilmot Proviso was designed to eliminate slavery within the land acquired as a result of the Mexican War. It effected the Civil War because it enflamed the growing controversy over slavery, and its situated foundation helped bring about the formation of the Republican Party in 1854. -
Compromise of 1850
Series of resolutins introduced by Henry Clay prevent a crisis between the North and South. This Compromise also caused the Fugitive Slave Act. It helped lead to the Civil War because it compelled Northerners to seize and return escaped slaves to the South. -
Fugitive Slave Act
Fugitive Slave Act was an attempt to bring peace to the slaveholders. It rquired all citizens to help catch runaway slaves. Anyone who helped a fugitive could get find or imprisoned. This led to the Civil War because it caused a lot more tension betwee the North and South. It affected the States Rights. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebrask Act was an 1854 bill that mandated popular sovereignty allowing settlers of a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed within a new state’s borders. The conflicts that came etween pro-slavery and anti-slavery led to the period of violence known as Bleeding Kansas, and helped paved the way for the American Civil War. -
Dred Scott Case Continued
This was a major role in the causing of the civil war becuase of the North's opions about blacks having no rights -
Dred Scott case
Dred Scott was an enslaved African American bouth by an army doctor in Missouri, a slave state His owner died in the 1840s. In 1846, wit the help of anti-slavery lawyers, Scott sued for his freedom. Scott claimed he should be free because he onced lived in areas of theNorth where slavery was prohibited. The case reached the supreme court years later. The Court's decision electrified the naton. They said he was still an enslaved person and didn't have the right to bring a lawsuit. -
John Brown's Raid on Harpers's Ferry
This was an attemt by white abolitinist John Brown to start an arme slave revolt in 1859 by seizing a Unted States arsenal. This was a trigger event to the civli war because pro-slavery and aniti-slavery groups were effected. -
Linclon's Election 1860
Abraham Lincoln was elected by a considerable margin in 1860 despite not being included on most of the Southern ballots. Being a Republican, his partys anti slavery outlook feared many Southerners. On December 20,1860, a little over a month after the votes closed, South Carolina seceded from the Union. Six more states followed by the spring of 1861. This seceding led to the civil war because the South was not agreeing with the North's ways of thinking. -
Battle at Ft. Sumter-1861
The day after taking office, Linclon recieved a message from the commander of Fort Sumter, a U.S fort on an island guarding Charleston Harber. The message warned that the fort was low on supplied and the Confederates demanded its surrender. Linclon promised the that Union forces would not "throw in men, arms, or ammunition" unless they were fired on.Fort Sumter surrended on April 14. Atleast a thousand shots were fired during the siege, but luckily there were no losses of life.
