Events Leading to the Civil War

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  • The Compromise of 1850 including the Fugitive Slave Act

    The Compromise of 1850 including the Fugitive Slave Act

    The Compromise of 1850 is about a series of 5 laws passed to keep both the North and South peaceful over slavery
  • Kansas-Nebraska Acy

    Kansas-Nebraska Acy

    The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 repealed the Missouri Compromise, which had banned any and all slavery north of the 36 degree 30 latitude line
  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas

    A period of violent, undeclared civil war in Kansas territory, sparked by the Kansas-Nebraska Act
  • Preston Brooks vs Charles Summer

    Preston Brooks vs Charles Summer

    Preston Booker, Representative of South Carolina violently assaulted Senator Charles Summer of Massachusetts on the Senate floor with his cane because of a speech about anti-slavery