Trigger Events of the Civil War
1820 | The Missouri Compromise
1831 | Nat Turner's Rebellion
1846 - 1850 | The Wilmot Proviso
1850 | The Compromise of 1850
1852 | Uncle Tom's Cabin
1854 - 1859 | Bleeding Kansas
1857 | Dred Scott v. Sanford
1858 | Lincoln-Douglas Debates