Declaration of Civil War
FIRST TRUE SHOTS!!!!!!!!!!!
* Mexican War
* Really started tensions between North and South after Missouri Compromise
* Separation between North and South
* Blood shed to acquire land and North not happy over acquisition of new southern land
* Bleeding Kansas
* Increased tensions between North and South as to whether or not Kansas should be free or slave state
* Were some deaths and blood was shed - Pottawomie War
* Lincoln-Douglas Debates
* Not literary a "shot" but helped Lincoln win presidency and south secede
* One of first battle fields
* "Uncle's Tom Cabin"
* Much anger in the South and there were a few violent clashes
* Lincon says when meets Stowe, "So you are the one who started the war"
* John Brown's Raid and Harper's Ferry
* John Brown killed few pro-slavery men and tried to evoke slaves to revolt
* Some northern men congradulate him
* South angry about this
* Really started tensions between North and South after Missouri Compromise
* Separation between North and South
* Blood shed to acquire land and North not happy over acquisition of new southern land
* Bleeding Kansas
* Increased tensions between North and South as to whether or not Kansas should be free or slave state
* Were some deaths and blood was shed - Pottawomie War
* Lincoln-Douglas Debates
* Not literary a "shot" but helped Lincoln win presidency and south secede
* One of first battle fields
* "Uncle's Tom Cabin"
* Much anger in the South and there were a few violent clashes
* Lincon says when meets Stowe, "So you are the one who started the war"
* John Brown's Raid and Harper's Ferry
* John Brown killed few pro-slavery men and tried to evoke slaves to revolt
* Some northern men congradulate him
* South angry about this
Links for Further Information
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/American-civil-war.htm#(I)_Introduction
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-civil-war-begins
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-civil-war-begins
Dhruv
