1. Road To the Civil War

2. End of the Mexican War- 1848  When the war was over, US gained many new states, with the addition of new states there posed a problem  Would they be free or slave states?

3. Fugitive Slave Law- 1850  Package of five bills, passed on September 4, 1850, lessening a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the south and the free states of the North  Made police liable if they didn’t arrest runaway slaves  “slave power”- slaves numbers would become to powerful, take over the South

4. Kansas-Nebraska Act- 1854  Created the states of Kansas and Nebraska  Debated to allow/not allow slavery

5. Bleeding Kansas- 1854  200 people died in a miniature civil war over slavery in the states

6. Dred Scott Case-1857  Scott was a slave who’s master brought him to the free state of Illinois and then to free Wisconsin Territory, then back to Missouri.  Scott sued for his freedom because he was living on free land and was a free man.  He lost his case because blacks were not citizens and so they could not sue in a federal court, and the court declared the Missouri compromise unconstitutional.

7. Lecompton Constitution Rejected  1857  When the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed, Kansas was allowed to determine if they were a free or slave state  The Lecompton Constitution was installed to make Kansas a slave state  The people tried to push the constitution through congress, but in 1858 it was sent back to Congress for another vote  It was a delayed statehood but Kansas voters rejected the constitution and Kansas became a free state

8. Harper’s Ferry Raid- 1859  John Brown- radical abolitionist that was involved in anti- slavery violence.  Lead a group of 17 men to raid the arsenal kept in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia  Wanted to start a slave uprising using the captured weapons

9. Lincoln-Douglass Debates-1860  Neither candidate wanted slavery in the states, but they disagreed on how to keep it out  Douglass tried to show that Lincoln was a abolitionist  Lincoln refuted that statement and said he does not want to make blacks and whites equal even though he knows slavery is morally and socially wrong

10. Failing Economy  National banks suffer a depression  Depression greater in north then the south  Southerners said that the greedy and self invested manufacturers from the north caused the depression

11. Bibliography  http://americanhistory.about.com/od/civilwarmenu/tp/secessi onevents.htm http://americanhistory.about.com/od/civilwarmenu/tp/secessi onevents.htm  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2932.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2932.html  http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h83.html http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h83.html  http://www.principlesofwar.com/scenarios/19thc/USmexinde x.htm http://www.principlesofwar.com/scenarios/19thc/USmexinde x.htm  http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASfugitive.htm http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USASfugitive.htm

12.  THE END  Hope you enjoyed this Mr. Magnuson !