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Uncle Tom’s Cabin is an anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, this novel helped pave the groundwork for the Civil War. This novel encouraged others to speak out and address the elephant in the room, which would further the corrosion of the relationship between northern and southern states.

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was finalized in 1854, this compromise was used to resolve the question of slavery in the states won from the Mexican-American war. This act was important because it questioned who should decide what states were for and not for slavery.

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The Pottawatomie massacre happened on the night of May 24, 1856. This massacre resulted in the deaths of five. This action was led by radical abolitionist John Brown. Five of his sons and three business associates murdered three pro-slavery men in cabins along Pottawatomie Creek. This massacre resulted in massive guerilla warfare in Kansas and the murder of over 200 people.

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On January 16, 1865, there was a field order that would redistribute nearly 400,000 acres of land in 40-acre plots to newly liberated black families. After the war most of the land was redistributed to former white slave owners, however, Andrew Johnson sent 900 freedmen’s bureau agents across 11 southern states to solve labor disputes, clothing, food, schooling, and protection from the Ku Klux Klan.

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The finalization of the thirteenth amendment abolished slavery in the United States, except as a punishment for a crime. Lincoln's past emancipation proclamation only freed a small percentage of slaves. This amendment was one of the most significant results of the Civil War.