Slavery timeline

  • Missouri compromise

    To keep the Senate equal Missouri became a slave state and Maine became free
  • Fugitive Slave Act

    California joined the U.S. and became a free state
  • compromise of 1850

    there was a line drawn between the north and south to ensure no problems
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin Published

    a campaign was started protesting slavery
  • Kansa-Nebraska Act

    The act introduced a government in the north-west part of the Louisiana purchase
  • dred Scott event

    Dred Scott vs Sandford
    A case was held in front of the supreme court trying to abolish slavery
  • John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry

    there were bloodshed divisions between slave and free states
  • election of 1860

    Abraham Lincoln was elected as president and with that he abolished slavery
  • South Carolina secedes

    there was a lack of unity in south Carolina that was costly of democrats