The HIstory of The Civil War

  • Missouri Becomes a Slave State

    Missouri Becomes a Slave State
    After fighting about whether Missouri would become a slave state or not in 1820 they finally decided that it would become a slave state.
  • North America Gains Land from Mexico

    North America Gains Land from Mexico
    The North wants the land that they gained from Mexico to be none slave territory while the south wants it to be slave territory.
  • Fugitive Slave Act

    Fugitive Slave Act
    Free slves where worned that there where people that would kidnappe them and take them back to the south
  • Wilmont Provisio

    Wilmont Provisio
    Northerners wanted to make sure that the territory gained from mexico stayed a slave free state.
  • Free Soil Party

    Free Soil Party
    A group thats main goal was to stop the expansion of slave states.
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act
    A bill was passed makeing it that a certain region would be devided into two part makeing it Kansas and Nebraska.
  • The First Rebublican Party

    The First Rebublican Party
    THe first rebublican party was formed.
  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas
    People rushed into Kansas to decide whether it would be a slave state or not there would be fights and vilonce of the issue every where.
  • Dread Scott Case

    Dread Scott Case
    Dread Scott had been a slave ever since he was bor and did not have any formal education. HIm and his master had lived in a frre state for a few years and then left. Dread got married and his master died and the widow took over.
  • John Brown Act

    John Brown Act
    John brown plans an attack on a slave ship but is killed in the proces.
  • Election of 1860

    Election of 1860
    Abraham Lincoln wins the 1860 election.
  • The South Secededs From the Union

    The South Secededs From the Union
    The south seceded from the union because Abraham Lincoln won the presidency. The south said that they had the right to do this.