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Assigned 11/20(B) – 11/21(A) The Road to the Civil War Name:______

Directions: Complete the following timeline using your classmates’ presentations.

Missouri Compromise Fugitive Slave Law Creation of Republican Party John Brown/Harpers Ferry Tariffs and Nullification Uncle Tom’s Cabin Bleeding Kansas Election of 1860 Wilmot Proviso Kansas-Nebraska Act Dred Scott Decision South Carolina Secedes Compromise of 1850

Date Event What Happened? How did it lead to war? The MO Compromise admitted Missouri to the US as a slave It worked to keep the peace for almost 30 state and Maine as a free state, to keep the balance between free Missouri and slave states in the US. years, but it was only temporary. As more 1820 Compromise It drew a line at 36’30 through the Louisiana Purchase territory, states entered the Union (the US), they and said that slavery would be allowed below the line, but would have to face the issue. prohibited above the line. South Carolina argued that states could nullify the Tariff of A union that allowed state governments to ignore 1832 and other acts of Congress if they thought they were acts of the national govt was not very strong, and 1828- Tariffs and unconstitutional. faced the danger of states seceding from the Union if Congress tried to abolish slavery. 1832 Nullification

After the US won California and the rest of the Even though it did not pass, the Wilmot Mexican Cession land from Mexico, a northern Proviso angered the south, and made them 1846- Wilmot Proviso Congressman tried to pass a law that said slavery afraid that the northern congressmen would 1848 (law) would be prohibited in any land gained from the try to ban slavery. Mexican war (even though that land was south of the 36’30 line) Allowed California to enter as a free state (made Even through north and south got something the North happy) while the new Southwestern they wanted from the Compromise, no one territories won from Mexico would decide about was very happy with it. 1850 Compromise of 1850 slavery by voting on it themselves (popular sovereignty). The Compromise also included the Fugitive Slave Act (made the South happy). Assigned 11/20(B) – 11/21(A) People in the North did not like being forced The Fugitive (runaway) Slave Law required people to participate in slavery. This made people in the north (free states) to capture slaves who in the North care more about slavery. It Fugitive Slave 1850 Law had escaped and return them to their owners in made the abolitionists very mad, and made the South. them work harder to fight slavery.

It was a crime to help an escaped slave. A book by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe that Deepened the divisions between north and Uncle Tom’s described the life of a slave (Uncle Tom). It south. Many people in the North care about 1852 Cabin helped people in the North understand how slavery for the first time, so it helped the horrible slavery was. abolitionists. Southerners were angruy Repealed (took away) the Missouri Compromise Allowed slavery north of the Missouri line by giving people in Kansas and Nebraska the Compromise Line. Kansas- choice whether to allow slavery in their states by a 1854 Nebraska Act vote (“popular sovereignty”). Led to Bleeding Kansas and the creation Republican Party Created to oppose the spread of slavery. Made This united different people who opposed up of northern Democrats, anti-slavery Whigs, and slavery, and deepened the divisions between Creation of 1854 Republican Party Free-Soil Party members. They did not agree on North and South. (The Republicans were an many things, but they were all against the spread all-northern party). Abraham Lincoln would of slavery. (Even if it was for different reasons.) be the first Republican President. Bloody fighting in Kansas as pro- and anti- slavery This was like a mini-Civil War, before the forces battled each other. Each side wanted to Civil War started. It was the first large get the most supporters into Kansas, so they violence between pro-slavery and anti- could win the vote on slavery. They fought one slavery forces. 1854- Bleeding another in brutal battles. Abolitionist John Brown went to Kansas to Kansas 1856 fight against slavery.

1857 Dred Scott A Supreme Court decision that said that slaves Takes away all rights of slaves. Angers the Decision were property, not citizens, so they had no rights, free states and abolitionists. Takes away and that living in a free state did not make a slave Congress’s power to limit slavery. free. It also said that the national government Assigned 11/20(B) – 11/21(A) could not make laws (like the Missouri Compromise) that would ban slavery in any state. Abolitionist John Brown tries to start a slave John Brown becomes a martyr (someone John Brown’s rebellion. He attacks the federal armory in who dies for a cause). The South is 1859 Raid on Harpers Ferry (armory = where the weapons are convinced that the North is trying to end Harpers Ferry stored) and is defeated by federal troops. slavery. The north celebrates John Brown as a freedom fighter. Abraham Lincoln (Republican) elected by northern People in the South did not trust the northern Election of states. Lincoln was against the spread of slavery Republicans. They did not feel like Lincoln 1860 1860 but promised not to interfere with slavery where it represented them at all. Deepened the already existed. divide between north and south.

Election of Lincoln is a “trigger” that results in Divides the US into the North (the Union) South Carolina secession (leaving) of South Carolina and then and the Confederacy. Other southern states Secedes other southern states. They feared that Lincoln follow. 1860 (leaves the would try to abolish slavery. The North and South will fight the Civil War United States) because the north wants to preserve (keep) the Union. Assigned 11/20(B) – 11/21(A)

The Road to the Civil War Vocabulary

Vocabulary Word Definition for this unit Example from this unit Antebellum Before the (Civil) War

Sectionalism Caring about your state or part of the country more than the country as a whole

Nullification Refusing to recognize a law. A state choosing to nullify (ignore) a federal law by not following it. Abolition/Abolitionist Someone who is against slavery and thinks slavery should be abolished (gotten rid of). Abolitionists were against slavery because they thought it was wrong, or a sin. Popular Sovereignty A state choosing something for itself by a vote of the people, or popular vote (as opposed to being what to do by the federal government). Fugitive Someone on the run from the law, trying not to be captured. Arsenal/Armory Where weapons and ammunition are kept. (guns, bullets, gunpowder, cannons)

Secession/Secede Leaving, or pulling apart from a larger thing. South Carolina was the first When the southern states left the US to form state to secede. This is called their own country, they seceded from the secession. Union.