A number of events seemed to be pushing the nation closer to war and following the election of abraham lincoln who was known for his anti enslavement views states that allowed the practice began to secede in late 1860 and early 1861 the united states its fair to say had been on the road to civil war for a long time. So after reading the civil war volume that featured the stories of captain america and iron man i decided i was going to try and read the civil war miniseries and all of the related apocrypha this is the first bit of that apocrypha being advertised as the stories that put us on the road to civil war. The road to civil war 1850 1860 by 1850 the nation had seen 13 presidents from founding fathers to forgottens do you even remember john tyler neither do i heck william henry harrison died 30