1820 - Missouri Compromise
- Maine would enter as a free state
- Missouri would enter as a slave state
- Slavery banned above the 36-30 line(Missouri's southern border) excluding Missouri
*Showed that Congress had the power to ban slavery in new territories

1850 - Compromise of 1850
- Repealed Missouri Compromise
- California would enter as a free state
- The Mexican Cession(1848) would be split into Utah and New Mexico
- People in UT and NW would decide whether or not to have slavery via popular sovereignty

1854 - Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Kansas and Nebraska would decide whether or not to have slavery via popular sovereignty
- Led to Bleeding Kansas(mini civil war that lasted 4 months)

Bleeding Kansas
- anti-slavery and pro-slavery people voted in Kansas
- more votes than there were registered citizens
- people died

1858 - Lincoln-Douglas Debates
- Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas debated over slavery
- Lincoln was anti-slavery, but not an abolitionist(slavery was wrong, but legal)
- Douglas won, but Lincoln gained national recognition

1859 - Harper's Ferry
- John Brown(abolitionist) led a slave rebellion
- tried to attach federal arsenal
- failed and all involved were punished
- Lincoln called Brown a "misguided fanatic"

Dred Scott Decision
- SC ruled that:
1. African-Americans aren't citizens so they can't sue in court
2. Dred Scott's time in the North didn't make him free
3. Banning slavery via the Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional
*South said they answered all questions about slavery
*North believed Congress had the right to ban slavery

Uncle Tom's Cabin
- written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- 1852
- sparked outrage in the North and South
- South thought it was propaganda and it was fake
- North spread anti-slavery support

Election of 1860
- Lincoln won(republican)
- Lincoln never campaigned in the South
- South Carolina secedes one month after he's elected
- South thinks they have no more hope to keep slavery
*Was the secession justified?

1861 - Civil War Begins
- Ft. Sumter is the first battle
- 11 states form the Confederate States of America

April 12, 1861 - Battle at Ft. Sumter
- South thinks the fort is theirs bc it's in the South
-North thinks it's theirs bc it's U.S. property
*Who has control over the fort, North or South?

	Created by Tirzah Lo about 7 years ago

Events leading up to the Civil War: dates, names, main points.