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Conflicts Leading to the Civil War
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Bear Flag Revolt
A small group of American settlers in California rebelled against the Mexican government and proclaimed California an independent republic. Although it was short lived, this freed california from the maxican govenmet to become part of the U.S. With this can the arguments over slave vs free -
Atempted Uprising in Cuba
Southerners support Narciso Lopez's attempt to cause an uprising in Cuba witch would led to american anexation, and allows slavery. Lopez was defeated and fleed to the United States. He is tried for violation of neutrality laws but a New Orleans jury failed to convict him. this would have led to an inbalanve of slave and free states and further conflects -
End of the Mexican War
With the end of the Mexican War, america reveced new terriroies. This lead to the argument of weither of not the new states in these terriroirs would be free or slave. -
Senator Henry S. Foote pulls a pistol on an anti-slavery senator in the U.S. Senate.
During a heated Senate debate over the projected compromise resolutions, Foote drew a pistol on Benton after Benton charged him. Other members wrestled Foote to the floor; they took the gun away and locked it in a drawer. -
Rebeilion at Christiana
Free blacks confront a slave owner, his son and their allies who are trying to capture two run away slaves at Christiana, Pennsylvania. In the fight that followed, three blacks and the slave owner were killed while his son was seriously wounded. -
Filibusterer William Walker's rebeilion in California
Filibusterer William Walker and a few dozen men briefly take over Baja California in an effort to expand slave territory. When they are forced to retreat to California and put on trial for violating neutrality laws, they are acquitted by a jury that deliberated for only eight minutes -
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Bleading Kansas
With passing of the Kansas-Nabraska Act in 1954, there was a flood of slavery and ani-slavery activist suporters flooding into these states to try to turn the vote on way or the other. With the heated differance in opinion it became a hotbed of violence as pro- and anti-slavery forces fought over the state's future. -
Preston Brooks attack on Charles Sumner
Congressman Preston Brooks attacked Charles Sumner with a cane after Sumner had given a speech attacking the pro-slavery forces for the violence occurring in Kansas. -
John Brown's Harpers Ferry Raid
John Brown was a radical abolitionist who led a group of seventeen including five black members to raid the arsenal located in Harper's Ferry.He was trying to start a slave uprising using the captured weapons but he and his men were surrounded and eventually killed or captured. -
The Battle of Fort Sumter
Confederate warships turned back the supply convoy to Fort Sumter and opened a 34-hour bombardment on the stronghold. This marked the begining of the Civil War.
