Timeline leading to Civil War

By Davsalaz78
  • The Compromise of 1850 including the Fugitive Slave Act

    The Compromise of 1850 including the Fugitive Slave Act

    The compromise of 1850 was a series of five laws enacted to defuse the escalating conflict over slavery between the North and South which included admitting California as a free state.
  • Bleeding Kansas

    Bleeding Kansas

    “Bleeding Kansas” was a series of violent clashes between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers in the Kansas Territory from 1854 to 1861, following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
  • The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

    The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

    The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, but its most significant and controversial provision was that it allowed residents to decide on the issue of slavery through popular sovereignty.
  • Dred Scott v. Sandford

    Dred Scott v. Sandford

    Dred Scott v. Sandford was a landmark 1857 Supreme Court case that ruled African Americans were not U.S. citizens and had no right to sue in federal court, even if they had been free.