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The Road to
the Civil War
A Payten Daniel Production
What Led to the Civil War?
1.) Compromise of 1850- September 4, 1850
2.) Fugitive Slave Act- September 18, 1850
3.) Uncle Tom's Cabin Published- 1852
4.) Republican Party Formed- 1854
5.) Kansas Nebraska Act- May 30, 1854
6.) Pottamatomie Massacre- May 24, 1856
7.) Dred Scott Decision- March 1857
8.) John Brown's raid- October 16, 1859
9.) Abraham Lincoln Is Elected President- November 6,
1860
10.) Confederate states of America formed- February 4,
1861
Compromise of 1850
• passed on September 4, 1850
• package of 5 bills
• stopped a four year
confrontation between the
South and the North that arose
from the expectation of
territorial expansion and the
Texas annexation
• results: Texas gave up it’s claim
on New Mexico but received
debt relief and the Texas
Panhandle, and retained
control over El Paso
Fugitive Slave Act
• passed on September
18,1850
• passed by the United
States Congress
• results: laws that helped
provide for the return of
slaves who escaped from
one state into another or
into a public territory
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
• an anti-slavery novel
• written by American author
Harriet Beecher Stowe
• had an effect on attitudes
towards African Americans
and slavery in the U.S.
• results: the novel intensified
the seasonal conflict leading
to the American Civil War
Republican Party Formed
Kansas Nebraska Act
• created the territories
Kansas and Nebraska
• allowed settlers to
determine if they would
allow slavery within their
boundaries
• results: opponents
denounced the law
because it let settlers
decide whether or not to
allow slavery and the
republican party tried to
stop the expansion of
slavery
Pottawatomie Massacre
• reaction to the “sacking” of Lawrence, Kansas
• John Brown and other abolitionist killed 5 pro-slavery
• killed them north of Pottawatomie Creek in Franklin
County, Kansas
• this event also became as “Bleeding Kansas”
Dred Scott Decision
• was an African American
slave who’s master brought
him to free soil, but his
master had to bring him
back to slave ground a few
years later
• when his master died, Scott
wanted to go back to free
soil but Congress voted
against and he had to stay
• result: this had the effect of
widening the political and
social gap between the
North and South
John Brown’s Raid
• John Brown led 18 men into
Harpers Ferry Virginia
• they seized federal buildings
and cut telegraph wires to
provoke and uproar of African
Americans
• after half his men were killed,
Brown was arrested and was
hanged in Charles Town
• results: the raid confirmed for
many Southerners the
existence of a widespread
Northern plot against slavery
and it further polarized the
North and the South
Abraham Lincoln Becomes
President
• After his election, South
Carolina and six other
states succeeded from
the Union
• Lincoln agreed the with
the majority of the
Republican Party that
the South was
becoming to powerful
• Made a platform that
slavery was not to be
extended to any new
territories or states
added to the Union
Confederate States Are Formed