Events Leading to the Civil War

President of the Confederacy 

• Thomas Jefferson
• Daniel Kilgore
• Abraham Lincoln
• Jefferson Davis

An end to slavery

• Boycott

• Abolition

• Indentured Servitude

• Individual Rights

Violent abolitionist that took over a federal arsenal (Harper's Ferry) in hopes to inspire a slave revolt.

• John Jackson
• John Smith
• John Adams
• John Brown

Agreement that said Maine would enter the Union as a free state and Missouri would be slave. Congress drew imaginary line east-west 36 degrees 30 degrees north. Any state north of the line was to be free and any state south was open to slavery.

• Mississippi Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Mayflower Compact
• Missouri Compromise

War in which the United States got Texas, California, New Mexico, and Utah.

• Spanish American War
• Civil War 
• War of 1812
• Mexican American War

Abolitionist that wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

• Dorothea Dix
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Mary Lincoln
• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Forbade educating enslaved Africans and kept them from leaving plantation land without owner’s permission.

• Code of Conduct
• African American Emancipation
• Slave Codes
• Hammurabi's Code

Law forcing people to return runaway slaves

• Fugitive Slave Law
• Black Codes
• Jim Crow Laws
• Slave Codes

Series of hiding places forming a route from the South to the north to escape slavery

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Underground Railroad

• Overseas Railroad

• Norfolk Southern Railway

New territories of Kansas and Nebraska would get to decide if they would be free or slave though they were above the Missouri Compromise line.

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Mexican American War