Many events led to the Civil War like the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Uncle Tom’s cabin was a novel that gave an idea what slavery was like. The author was Harriet Stowe Beecher and she also painted a picture that showed what slavery was. John Brown's Raid (1859) was when John killed 5 pro-slavery people and his own sons died and he kept on fighting. Abraham Lincoln's Election(1860) was the election for president and he won but about 2 years before he ran against Douglas for senate and lost. If Lincoln would have won senate he would have never became president while being senate. Some conflicts were slavery because that was a very big issue in the 1800s. The Lincoln vs. Douglas debates main topic was slavery and Lincoln was anti-slavery