Events Leading Up to the Civil War
By: Ashley Miznazi- Period 4
The Compromise of 1850
Significance to Civil War: It temporally eased the tensions in the United States, which postponed the Civil War. It also made more problems start to stir between the North and the South.
Henry Clay
He is introducing the Compromise of 1850 in the Senate.
Map
The Compromise of 1850 overturned the Missouri Compromise and left the overall issue of slavery unsettled.
Manuscript
This is the handwritten manuscript of the Compromise of 1850.
Fugitive Slave Act- 1850
Significance to Civil War: The fugitive slave act of 1850 caused abolitionists to increase their efforts against slavery, which made a reason and cause for the Civil war to happen.
Kidnappers and Slave Catchers!
This is an example of a warning for all colored people that people are employed for catching and keeping them.
Fleeing
This photo shows the slaves running away, and trying not to get caught.
Abolitionist
This abolitionist, Wendell Phillips, is speaking against the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
The Dred Scott Decision of 1857
Significance to the Civil War: The Dred Scott decision was significant to the Civil War because it widened the political and social gap between the North and South causing fighting, which lead it to the Civil War.
Dred Scott
Document
This is a court document from the long court battle.
John Emerson
John Emerson was Dred Scott's master.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
Significance to the Civil War: The North and the South continued to disagree, argue, and fight every time a new state wanted to enter the United States. The south got so tired of this that they decided to brake away from the union to make their own country. This tension is what finally started the Civil War.
Map
This is a map of the Kansas and Nebraska territory.
Bloody Kansas
The North and the South faught many wars, known as the Bloody Kansas. This drove Texas even closer every time to the Civil War
John Brown's Raid of 1859
Significance to the Civil War: The Raid at Harpers Ferry became one of the contributing factors that led to the Civil War. This is what started the Civil War!
Raid at Harpers Ferry
John Brown
He is the man who led the Raid at Harpers Ferry.
Map
This is the map of the Raid at Harpers Ferry.
PICTURE BIBLIOGRAPHY
Picture one:
http://www.ushistory.org/us/images/00000520.jpg
Picture two:
http://www.ushistory.org/us/images/00080486.gif
Picture three:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/0090001.jpg
Picture three:
Picture one:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/DredScott.html
Picture two:
http://shs.umsystem.edu/historicmissourians/name/s/scottd/index.html
Picture three:
Picture one:
http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215469/kansas1.gif
Picture two:
Picture one:
Picture two: http://media-1.web.britannica.com/eb-media/63/76563-004-76705AA5.jpg
Picture three: http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/harpersferry/maps/map-of-john-browns-raid-on.html