Template:Events leading to the American Civil War

Events leading to
the American Civil War
Economic End of Atlantic slave trade Panic of 1857
Political Northwest Ordinance Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions Missouri Compromise Nullification crisis Gag rule Tariff of 1828 End of slavery in British colonies Texas Revolution Texas annexation Mexican–American War Wilmot Proviso Nashville Convention Compromise of 1850 Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 Kansas–Nebraska Act Ostend Manifesto Caning of Charles Sumner Lincoln–Douglas debates 1860 presidential election Crittenden Compromise Secession of Southern states Peace Conference of 1861 Corwin Amendment
Social Nat Turner's slave rebellion Martyrdom of Elijah Lovejoy Burning of Pennsylvania Hall American Slavery As It Is Uncle Tom's Cabin Bleeding Kansas The Impending Crisis of the South Oberlin–Wellington Rescue John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
Judicial Trial of Reuben Crandall Commonwealth v. Aves The Amistad affair Prigg v. Pennsylvania Recapture of Anthony Burns Dred Scott v. Sandford Virginia v. John Brown
Military Star of the West Battle of Fort Sumter President Lincoln's 75,000 volunteers
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