1. Events Preceding the Civil War
Conflicts and Compromise

2. Louisiana Purchase - 1804

3. Missouri Compromise - 1820

4. Nat Turner - 1831

5. Compromise of 1850 /
Fugitive Slave Act

6. Uncle Tom’s Cabin - 1852

7. Kansas-Nebraska Act - 1854

8. Dred Scott Decision - 1857

9. Lincoln - Douglas Debates - 1858

10. John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s
Ferry - 1859

11. The South Secedes - 1860

12. The North and South in 1860
North South
Total population 22,000,000 (71%) 9,000,000 (29%)
Free population 22,000,000 5,500,000
1860 Border state slaves 432,586 NA
1860 Southern slaves NA 3,500,000
Soldiers 2,200,000 (67%) 1,064,000 (33%)
Railroad miles 21,788 (71%) 8,838 (29%)
Manufactured items 90% 10%
Firearm production 97% 3%
Bales of cotton in 1860 Negligible 4,500,000
Bales of cotton in 1864 Negligible 300,000
Pre-war U.S. exports 30% 70%