Road to Secession

Event What it Was Key Players How did it affect What is a possible sectionalism and/or lead outcome if this event had to secession? not occurred? (Your expert opinion)

3/5 Compromise 1787

Cotton Gin 1793

Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions 1788-1799

Nullification Crisis 1828- 1833

Nat Turner’s Rebellion 1831 Abolition Movement

Mexican War 1846-48 (Mexican Cession)

Wilmot Proviso 1848

Free Soil Party formed 1848

California Gold Rush 1848

Compromise of 1850 Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852

Ostend Manifesto 1854

Underground Railroad

Republican Party Forms 1854

Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854

Bleeding Kansas 1854-56 Brooks Sumner Incident 1856

Dred Scott v Sanford 1857

Panic of 1857

Lincoln-Douglas Debates 1858

Harpers Ferry Raid 1859

Election of 1860