The Chronological Events Leading To The Civil War

The Civil War took place between 1861 to 1865. The war was fought to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. In January 1861 among the 34 states that were present then seven of the Southern slave states affirmed their withdrawal from the United States. Their departure led to the formation of the Confederate States of America. They steadily grew with the allegiance of six more states. The Confederacy was never diplomatically accepted by overseas countries even though they acquired thirteen states and some of the Western territories. The remaining states were called the North of the Union, these were the states that did not withdraw and remained loyal.
The cause of the war was the touchy issue of slavery. The
1820 The Compromise in Missouri. In 1803, the Congress was obliged to come up with a policy to give way to the growth of slavery in the western region. Missouri’s request for statehood as a slave state sparked an unpleasant countrywide discussion. The Congress reached a succession of agreements that became known as the Missouri Compromise. Missouri was acknowledged as a slave state and Maine was acknowledged as a free state, conserving the Congressional balance.
1831 Nat Turner’s Rebellion. In 1831, a slave called Nat Turner encouraged a mutiny that blew out through several farmsteads in southern Virginia. Turner and about seventy associates killed around sixty white people. Although little slave revolutions were relatively common in the American South, Nat Turner’s rebellion was the most gruesome.
Virginia policymakers responded to the crisis by rolling back what few civil rights slaves and free blacks owned at the time. Education was forbidden, and the right to accumulate was ruthlessly
1852 The book Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Uncle Tom’s Cabin was one of the best-selling books in America second only to the Bible in the 19th century. Its popularity made the unmoved people about slavery more aware of the issue of slavery.
1854 - 1861 Bleeding Kansas. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 barely passed while Congressmen displayed weapons and uttered death threats in the House chambers, overturned parts of the Missouri Compromise by letting the settlers in the two regions to control whether or not to license slavery by a general vote. Pro and anti-slavery campaigners gathered in Kansas, hoping to change the judgment by sheer weight of numbers. The two factions struggled for five years with occasional eruptions of violence that claimed fifty lives (Houston, 2006).
1860 Abraham Lincoln’s Election. Abraham Lincoln was elected by a substantial margin in 1860 in spite of not being contained within on many Southern ballots. On December 20, 1860, almost a month after the polls were closed, South Carolina withdrew from the Union. Six more states shadowed by the spring of