Events that led to the Civil War

This was written to expose the horrors of enslavement.

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Dred Scott decsion

The South hated this tax on raw materials and manufactured goods because they felt it favored the north.

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Tariff of 1828

• Southern tax

This divided the Slave and Free States of the Louisianna Purchase. Any territory North of the 36 30 line would be free. South of it was slave states.

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas- Nebraska Act

• Bleeding Kansas

This person led a raid in Harpers Ferry, VA. He hoped to arm both white and black abolitionists. He was arrested and executed.

This person sued for his family's freedom making the arugment that they were free after having lived in a free state. Court ruled he did not have the right to sue becasue he was legally considered property. The Supreme Court said legislation limiting slavery was unconstitutional.

Border Ruffianas from slave states crossed into Kansas and voted illegally to make Kansas a slave state. 2 governments formed in Kansas and fighting broke out. Hundreds of people were killed.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Bleeding Kansas

• Compromise of 1850

• Nat Turners Rebellion

He became a prominent Republican figure after this sentorial election in Illinois. These debates boosted the Reputation of this man.

• Dred Scott

• Abraham Lincoln

• Nat Turner

• Stephen Douglas

He was an enslaved person who led a slave rebellion in VA, which scared Southern Plantation owners. After his rebellion, Southern laws on the enslaved were even tougher.

This act made the Missouri Compromise obsolete(not valid) by allowing popular sovereignty and allowing the people living in the new states to determine the slavery issue. This had to do with whether or not Kansas and Nebraska would be admitted as free or slave states.

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Bleeding Kansas

When California applied to the Union as a free state, Southern states threatend to secede which led to this compromise that made strict fugitive slave laws.

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas Nebraska Act

• Secession of South Carolina