Trigger Events of the Civil War

Forced, free labor that became the center of agriculture for Southern states. Did not end until June 19 1865.

• Slavery

• Sectionalism

• Secession

• Nationalism

An agreement that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state; temporarily preserved the balance between free and slave states.

• Michigan Compromise

• Milwaukee Proviso

• Missouri Compromise

• Declaration of Freedom

This legislation added Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. Difficult to keep the balance between free and slave states.

• Missouri Compromise 1820

• Maine Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Declaration of Independence

A series of slave revolts on plantations in Virginia that killed over 60 whites. As a result, teaching enslaved or free Blacks to read and write were outlawed. Gatherings were also made illegal.

• Bleeding Kansas

• John Brown's Raid

• Nat Turner's Rebellion

• Boston Massacre

This legislation would have outlawed slavery in states acquired/won in the Mexican American War. It did not pass.

• Gadsden Purchase

• Wilmot Proviso

• Louisiana Purchase

• Monroe Doctrine

This legislation admitted California as a free state, did not outlaw slavery in the Mexican Cession (land won in the Mexican American War) and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act.

• Louisiana Purchase

• Michigan Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Lincoln Doctrine

A fictional book written to describe the horrors of slavery in the South. Helped widen the division between the North and South.

• The Raven

• Invisible Man

• The Bible

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

A violent attack on proslavery settlers by abolitionist John Brown and his supporters in the Pottawatomie Creek Massacre in Kanas of May 1856.

• Boston Massacre

• Raid at Harper's Ferry Virginia

• Bleeding Kansas

• Bear River Massacre

An enslaved man from Virginia who tried to sue for his freedom based on having lived in free territory. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B Taney (an enslaver) declared enslaved Blacks had no rights as a citizen of the United States.

• Dred Scott

• Nat Turner

• Frederick Douglass

• Benjamin Banneker

A series of 1858 debates in which the central topic was slavery. The winner won the Illinois senator's seat, but the loser went on to became POTUS in 1860.

• Lincoln Douglas Debates

• Lee Grant Debates

• The Wilmot Debate

• What debate?!.