Template:Events leading to the American Civil War

Events leading to the American Civil War

1. Northwest Ordinance (1787)
2. Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798–99)
3. End of Atlantic slave trade
4. Missouri Compromise (1820)
5. Tariff of 1828
6. Nat Turner's Rebellion (1831)
7. Nullification crisis (1832–33)
8. Abolition of slavery across British colonies (1834)
9. Texas Revolution (1835–36)
10. United States v. Crandall (1836)
11. Gag rule (1836–44)
12. Commonwealth v. Aves (1836)
13. Murder of Elijah Lovejoy (1837)
14. Burning of Pennsylvania Hall (1838)
15. American Slavery As It Is (1839)
16. United States v. The Amistad (1841)
17. Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842)
18. Texas annexation (1845)
19. Mexican–American War (1846–48)
20. Wilmot Proviso (1846)
21. Nashville Convention (1850)
22. Compromise of 1850
23. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
24. Recapture of Anthony Burns (1854)
25. Kansas–Nebraska Act (1854)
26. Ostend Manifesto (1854)
27. Bleeding Kansas (1854–61)
28. Caning of Charles Sumner (1856)
29. Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
30. The Impending Crisis of the South (1857)
31. Panic of 1857
32. Lincoln–Douglas debates (1858)
33. Oberlin–Wellington Rescue (1858)
34. John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (1859)
35. Virginia v. John Brown (1859)
36. 1860 presidential election
37. Crittenden Compromise (1860)
38. Secession of Southern states (1860–61)
39. Peace Conference of 1861
40. Corwin Amendment (1861)
41. Battle of Fort Sumter (1861)