Road to Civil War
Sectionalism
North
South
Western Expansion and Slavery
Politics: States’ Rights
Modernization
Timeline of Events Leading to Civil War
1820: Missouri Compromise
1831: Nat Turner Rebellion
1833: Nullification Crisis
1845: Annexation of Texas
1846: Wilmot Proviso
: Mexican War
The Compromise of 1850
1852: Uncle Tom’s Cabin In every article on, or edition of, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the writer is obligated to observe that Lincoln greeted Stowe in the White House as the “little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.”
1854:Kansas-Nebraska Act (Bleeding Kansas)
1854: Ostend Manifesto
1856: Brooks-Sumner Affair
1857: Dred Scott Decision
1858: Lincoln-Douglas Debates
1859: John Brown’s Raid
1860: Election of Abraham Lincoln
1861: Secession