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Ever since America was discovered, slavery has been one of the most devastating moments for Africans and African-Americans. Over thousands of Africans were brought to America as slaves, and were forced into labor to work for the white people, from colonists, to plantation owners. Around 1820, the Northern States made slavery illegal, but the South wasn't fond with slavery being made illegal. Slavery would then be one of the most controversial problems in the 1800's.

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Around the 1820's the congress was compelled to bring a new policy of slavery expansion into new territory of the west. As for Missouri itself, it was debated whether it would be a slave state, or a free state. Ultimately, Missouri became a slave state, and Maine became a free state. The Missouri line across Missouri would divide the North of the free states, and the South of the slave states.

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In the August of 1831, slave Nat Turner starts a uprising against the plantations of Virginia. The rebellion resulted with Turner and 70 other cohorts killed 60 white people. Nat Turner was executed for his insurrection. Virginia lawmakers reacted to the crisis by limiting the rights to assemble and prohibiting education to black people.

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Nat Turner about to knife a fellow southerner

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Between 1846-1850, The Wilmot Proviso was a legislation proposed by David Wilmot at the end of the Mexican-American War. If the legislation was passed, any territory that was acquired after the war would outlaw slavery. Nevertheless, the debate surrounded the Proviso.

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After the Proviso debates, two senators Henry Clay and Stephen Douglass, managed the Compromise of 1850. The Compromise admitted California as a free state and didn't regulate slavery of the Mexican Cession. While the Compromise was a huge success, it did reinforced the divided disparity of the United States.

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John Brown was a slavery abolitionist that wanted to put a end of slavery once and for all. Just one year before the war, something came to his mind, that the only way to stop slavery was to bring in violence. He led a raid at Harpers Ferry in Virginia, but was stopped by U.S troops led by Robert E. Lee. Casualties from both sides were severe, but the aftermath of the raid led to what the American Civil War will become.

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In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln becomes the 16th president of the United States. As a radical republican, leading the new Republican Party, the main goal was to abolish slavery throughout the entirety of the United States. The outlook struck fear to the democrats, including those from the south, resulting into a huge division.

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After Lincoln's election, Lincoln wanted fresh supplies for the outposts of the beleaguered garrisons including Fort Sumter. In 1861, warships of the Confederate Army opened fire at Fort Sumter. After the attack, Lincoln united a army for the Northern States to fight the Confederate Army of the Southern States. The Civil War finally begins.

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Fort of the Sumter getting put into a midlife destruction by southerners of the south because of confederate motives