Road to Civil War

This court decision ruled that all African Americans were not citizens and had no rights.

She wrote the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which increased abolitionist feelings

This compromise determined how Maine and Missouri would be allowed to enter the Union

This compromise stated that California would enter the Union as a free state

This law allowed the people in new territories to decide the question of slavery for themselves

This Congressman was attacked on the floor of the Senate because of his abolitionist position.

This law made it illegal to help runaway slaves and allowed the arrest of runaways in free area

This compromise created a border line between northern free states and southern slave states

This was a failed slave rebellion led by abolitionists that helped spark the Civil War.

This bill in 1848 attempted to ban slavery in the newly acquired territory from Mexico