Leading to the Civil War

Missouri Compromise (1820)- regulated slavery in the Western territories.

Missouri Compromise 1820

Wilmot Proviso (1846)- banned slavery in any territory from the Mexican War.

Wilmot Proviso 1846

Compromise of 1850- slave trade was abolished in Washington, D.C.

Compromise of 1850

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)- a book about slavery, wrote by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)-  allowed white male settlers to determine popular sovereignty.

Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854