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Key Events Leading to the Civil War Directions: Complete the chart by filling in the missing information. The information in the column labeled “Significance” should explain how the event/legislation contributed to the coming of the Civil War. Description A two-part compromise reached in 1820. Missouri would be allowed to join the Union as a slave state, but at the same time, Maine which had been part of Massachusetts would be admitted as a free state. This preserved the delicate slave-free balance in the Senate. Second, a line was drawn across Louisiana Territory at the latitude of 36 degrees, 30 minutes. With the exception of Missouri, slavery would not be allowed north of the line. Between 1846 and 1848, the United States and Mexico went to war. By the war's end, Mexico lost nearly half of its territory, the present American Southwest from Texas to California, and the United States became a continental power. Wilmot Proviso MexicanAmerican War Missouri Compromise Event or Legislation On August8, 1846, David Wilmot, a young Democratic representative from Pennsylvania serving his first term in Congress, attached to an appropriations bill a provision that slavery be excluded from any territory acquired from Mexico. It carried in the House of Representatives along sectional lines but died in the Senate. The Wilmot Proviso would be brought forward in subsequent sessions of Congress where it often passed in the House but not in the Senate. Compromise of 1850 Date A compromise reached in 1850 where California would be admitted to the Union as a free state. Other territories in the Southwest would be organized without mention of slavery. The slave trade in the District of Columbia would be abolished, but the federal government would pass a strong fugitive slave law to prevent escaped slaves from being declared free. The federal government would also assume the debts Texas incurred before it was annexed to the United States. Significance – How might this event lead to rising tensions between the North and South? Date Event/Legislation Fugitive Slave Act Description The Fugitive Slave Act mandated the return of runaway slaves, regardless of where in the Union they might be situated at the time of their discovery or capture. It required citizens to assist in the recovery of fugitive slaves. Kansas-Nebraska Act When the territories of Kansas and Nebraska applied for statehood in 1854, Congress repealed the Missouri Compromise, and passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act. The Kansas-Nebraska Act left the question of slavery up to the “popular sovereignty” of the settlers of the two territories to decide. Dred Scott was a St. Louis slave trying to win his freedom from the courts because he was a citizen of Missouri and because of his travels with his master in free territory like Illinois and Wisconsin until his master’s death in 1846. When the state court decided against him, he and his lawyers appealed to the Supreme Court. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney ruled first that neither free blacks nor enslaved blacks were citizens so could not sue in federal courts. The Justice also ruled that the Illinois law banning slavery had no force over Scott after he returned to Missouri, where slavery was allowed. Also the Court ruled that the Wisconsin Territory laws had no force either, because the Missouri Compromise that outlawed slavery in the territory was unconstitutional Dred Scott Decision th John Brown and Harper’s Fairy based on the 5 Amendment, which prohibits the government from depriving people of property and liberty without due process of law. On October 16, 1859, the radical abolitionist John Brown led a raid with twenty-one followers against Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, in and effort to obtain arms for a slave rebellion. th Federal troops took control of the arsenal on October 17 and Brown was charged with treason, conspiracy and murder. He was convicted and hanged by the state of Virginia. Brown became a martyr. Significance Lincoln’s Election Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate is elected President of the United States. Fort Sumter Decades of growing strife between North and South erupted in civil war on April 12, 1861, when Confederate artillery opened fire on this Federal fort in Charleston Harbor. Fort Sumter surrendered 34 hours later. Union forces would try for nearly four years to take it back.