Events leading up to the Civil War
By Tricia Lee
The Compromise 1850
30 years after The Missouri Compromise of 1820 the North and the South made another compromise. This compromise was called the The Compromise of 1850. In this compromise gave Texas 10 million dollars to give up any claim to Mexico territory it also made The Fugitive Slave Act and allowed the slaves to work for South but don't allow the slave trade to continue in Washington D.C.
The actual docoment
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K7dc2uY4ci4/TmFMeQHF3RI/AAAAAAAAAZA/gZqYCRHIapQ/s1600/Compromise+of+1850.jpg
a flyer about the new "slave code"
http://haysvillelibrary.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/slave-code-of-the-district-of-columbia-1862-library-of-congress.jpg
The Fugitives Slave Act
http://shipsofthesea.org/exhibits/index_files/Page433.htm
http://nmaahc.si.edu/Blog/anthonyburns
http://www.dipity.com/goolia19/American-History/
Dred Scott Decision
The Dred Scott decision was a curt case which the slave has filled a lawsuit against his owners. Because of this case the U.S Supreme Court when lead by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney declared all African Americans slave of not aren't or will ever be U.S. citizens. Which made a lot of people angry mostly African Americans and Northerners, adding more fuel to fire which eventually to war.
Dred Scott himself
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_v._Sandford
Slavery Question
http://www.pbs.org/thisfarbyfaith/journey_2/p_7.html
The Kanas-Nebraska Act
This act established that settlers could vote to decide whether to allow slavery, in the name of popular vote and rule of the people. Stephen A. Douglas hoped that would ease relations between the North and the South, because the South could expand slavery to new territories but the North still had the right to abolish slavery in its states. Instead, opponents denounced the law as a concession to the slave power of the South. The new Republican Party, which was created in opposition to the act, aimed to stop the expansion of slavery and soon emerged as the dominant force throughout the North.
Map of the U.S After Kansas-Nebraska act is put in play
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/lincolns-political-landscape/
http://www.archives.gov/legislative/features/kansas/kansas-nebraska-act.html
John Brown raid
john brown's picture
A flyer of Brown's tereason
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/Civil-War/img/JohnBrown1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/Civil-War/John-Brown.htm&h=500&w=686&sz=190&tbnid=ovNeqlWZFv2-PM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=123&zoom=1&usg=__liCtmPaQfLsO8eRlPkrNIioYhyk=&docid=_F8Bswoe9iUA1M&hl=en&sa=X&ei=w2xGUf3PCY762AW80oGwBQ&sqi=2&ved=0CE8Q9QEwBA&dur=1406
The attack
http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2009/10/john-browns-body/