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The key players in this event were Abraham Lincoln and the confederate states: South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas

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Abraham Lincoln was elected president and some Southern states were in fear because he would not allow slavery to spread to further states. South carolina did not agree with that so they seceded and took 6 other states with them calling themselves the Confederate States of America.

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James W. Marshall

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John W. Marshall found a piece of gold on his land and the word got out. Many people from all around the U.S. migrated to California to find gold; around 300,000 people migrated. The California Gold rush was the biggest mass migration in American history. Miners found more than 750,000 pounds of gold during this time.

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Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas

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During the 1858 Illinois Senatorial campaign, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas were the 2 opponents. They were debating over whether slavery should expand or not. Lincoln and Douglas came to the conclusion that the new states should decide for themselves whether they want slavery or not instead of the government.

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Image: Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas

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Image: Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas

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Eli Whitney

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Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin which was a machine that separated the cotton and the seeds. The invention was hoped to decrease the amount of slaves, but it did the opposite. The invention actually increased profit for the planters that the desire for slaves increased even more.

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David Wilmot

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This was an attempt at a proposition to ban slavery in any new territory acquired from Mexico during the Mexican-American war. The law did not pass because it was unconstitutional and the senate did not take any action on it.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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The novel was an anti-slavery novel that had an affect on the Northerners. The northerners felt that the southerners were trying to convince them to support slavery despite all their views of states' rights.

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Image: the novel of Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Image: the novel of Harriet Beecher Stowe

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James K. Polk, John Slidell, and Zachary Taylor

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The US added texas after they claimed independence from mexico; this caused some conflict between the US and Mexico. Later, conflict expanded when the U.S. wanted to set the Texas border on the Rio Grande, but Mexico wanted the border to be on the Nueces River.

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California, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Washington D.C

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California was admitted as a free state. The remainder of the mexican territory was divided into 2 parts, New Mexico and Utah; they were created with the decision of popular sovereignty, so the people get to decide whether or not they want slavery.

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John Brown, James Buchanan, Stephen A. Douglas

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Bleeding Kansas were battles between pro and anti-slavery groups that happened in Kansas during 1856-1865. Thousands of Northerners and Southerners came to the newly forced Kansas and were fighting over whether slavery should be legal in kansas or not.

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Stephen A. Douglas, President Franklin Pierce

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The Kansas Nebraska Act was passed by the US Congress to allow the people of Kansas and Nebraska decide whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. This Acts purpose was to repeal the Missouri Compromise which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36, 30.

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Abraham Lincoln, John C.Breckinridge, John Bell

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The 1860 Republican National Convention nominated lincoln as its main representative. The Republican Party Platform promised not to interfere with slavery in the states, but did not want further extension of slavery into the territories. Abraham Lincoln won the most popular and electoral votes.

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Henry Clay

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This was a law that required the government and the citizens to help slave owners capture any runaway slaves. Under the Constitution, slave owners had the right to recapture slaves that fled to free states. The northerners did not know where they stood with this law because they liked that they could get rewarded for turning in a runaway slave, but it forced them to sort of support slavery.

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Dred-Scott and Supreme Court

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The supreme court ruled that any african american was not a citizen and was not entitled to the same rights as a white man. Slave or not, you were not a citizen and could not sue in court either. This caused tension and even more problems between the beliefs of the North and South.

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John Brown and his men, slave owners, U.S. Marines

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John Brown was a northerner who opposed slavery and wanted to make that point clear. Brown and his men marched to Virginia to capture the weapons there and distribute them to all the slaves to hurt their masters. The U.S. Marines stopped this raid and captured Brown and hung him on December 2.