Civil war timeline

  • Missouri Compromise

    Missouri Compromise
    it was lowered because slavery was permitted
  • Mexican war

    Mexican war
    it raised over the expansion of slavery, because america won over the land of Texas.
  • Wilmot Proviso

    Wilmot Proviso
    It lowered slavery, because the wilmot proviso was designed to eliminate slavery within the a land.
  • California gold rush

    California gold rush
    it raised because some slave owners brought more slaves to find and dig for the gold
  • Compromise of 1850

    Compromise of 1850
    Slavery was lowered, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states regarding the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War.
  • Fugitive slave law

    Fugitive slave law
    it got lowered because the north and south became more divided over slavery
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published

    Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published
    it lowered the slavery, because of how bad he experienced as a slave
  • Republican Party Forms

    Republican Party Forms
    The republican party lowered slavery because they try to stop slavery so it cant expand to the west.
  • Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Kansas-Nebraska Act
    Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
  • Charles Sumner caned in the Senate

    Charles Sumner caned in the Senate
    The crime against kansas, the speech, made in the senate by summer, denounced slave states, especially south Carolina.
  • Dred Scott vs. Sandford

    Dred Scott vs. Sandford
    It lowered slavery dred scott, was a slave, and was taken by his owner into a free territory. Scott sued and argued that this meant he was now free.
  • john brown's raid at Harper's ferry

    john brown's raid at Harper's ferry
    John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. so slavery kind of went down
  • Abraham Lincoln elected President

    Abraham Lincoln elected President
    abraham lowered slavery lincoln issued his first Emancipation Proclamation, which announced that at the beginning of 1863, he would use his war powers to free all slaves in states still in rebellion
  • Battle at Fort Sumter

    Battle at Fort Sumter
    The intense Confederate artillery bombardment of Major Robert Anderson's small Union garrison in the unfinished fort in the harbor at Charleston, slavery grew instead of lowering
  • “Bleeding Kansas”

    “Bleeding Kansas”
    it got lowered because popular sovereignty failed because people in Kansas could not agree over slavery.
  • Southern states begin to secede

    Southern states begin to secede
    The slavery went down because six other states seceded. They were Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana. Later Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee joined them.